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In the Jewish vernacular, caring for the dead is called chesed shel emet (“true kindness”) because bestowing honor upon the dead is a favor that cannot be returned by the beneficiary.
Good Tuesday morning. In today’s edition of Your Daily Phil, we report on Len Blavatnik’s response to Jonathan Glazer’s controversial Oscars speech and examine the emergence of a macabre “tragedy tourism” to devastated Israeli communities. We feature an opinion piece by Yotam Polizer reflecting on IsraAid’s first-ever domestic.