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Love. Its about appreciation and admiration, about connection on the deepest level. Its about understanding and closeness almost to the point of unity. Love can bring us to a meeting of minds, to partnership.The Torah instructs us to love God with all our heart, with all our soul, and with all our might. But how does one come to love God? Maimonides explains that when one stands face to face with creation, with its intricacy and beauty, its exquisitely calibrated functionality, one cannot but fall in love with the Creator behind the creation. One cannot but become imbued with the most total adoration. One cannot but be swept away by an insatiable passion to understand and to search for intimacy with the Force behind it all.

But the closer one approaches, writes Maimonides, the greater the realization of the gulf between Creator and created. The more our love brings us to delve into the mysteries of His world, the more the awareness of His utter uniqueness and inapproachability envelops us. And we retreat in shame that we ever thought to consummate our love with One such as He. And then what we experience is otherness and distance.

At the same time that the Torah commands us concerning the love of God, it also commands us to experience this awe of the Ineffable. Both of these psychological states are essential to the properly balanced religious personality, and Maimonides seems to imply that ideally, our fate is to forever oscillate between the consciousness of love on the one hand, and the opposing consciousness of awe on the other.

It may be possible, however, to understand and experience the relationship between love of God and awe of God differently. Our Torah portion, Parshat Titzave, introduces us to the eight vestments of the Kohen Gadol, the High Priest. Strangely, the Torah does not present them together, but rather lists six at the outset of the parsha and delays the instruction concerning the remaining two until later. One of these two, the Tzitz, that gold plate engraved with the words Kodesh laShem, Holy unto God, which is to be fastened upon the forehead of the Cohen Gadol, commands the attention of the author of the Hasidic collection of homilies called Mei haShiloach.

By his very nature and by virtue of his status and calling, explains Mei haShiloach, the High Priest is awash in Awe of the Most High.The Tzitz, on the other hand, represents and engenders Devekut, which means intimacy, nigh near total connection. Devakut is about being so absolutely wrapped up in Him so as to leave almost no room for anything else. It is a matter of consummate love of God to the highest degree possible.The Tzitz is left for the end, says the Mei haShiloach, to indicate that what we have here is a process. Love follows awe, and supersedes it. The paralysis and distance born of awe must forever be left behind. The experience of an unbridgeable chasm between man and God is not one we are to live with forever. There comes a time in a mans life when the movement of recoiling from His presence is no longer to be cultivated in our psyche as a complement to love, but rather to be banished from consciousness.

But only at the end of a long process. Awe is a prerequisite. Love and intimacy that do not grow from awe as a plant from a seed are doomed to overstep their boundaries and lead to narcissism in which love of self masquerades as closeness to God. The dangers of such self deception are manifold. But after a lifetime of love counterbalanced by awe, there comes a time when we may allow that awe to be overwhelmed and vanquished by a sense of oneness with the One, of clinging to the Divine. Love shall then blossom to the exclusion of all else. Then we shall see with absolute clarity that our very selves and our deeds derive directly from Heaven, and we shall have no fear.

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WASHINGTON (JTA) The American Israel Public Affairs Committee alerted the thousands of activists who attended its conference this week that a New York group in attendance had been in contact with someone who has the virus.

To our knowledge, no one who attended the conference has tested positive for coronavirus at this time, said the email sent Wednesday, which AIPAC also posted on Twitter.

Its not clear from where in New York the group came from. Two Orthodox Jews from New Rochelle have contracted the virus.

The email said the District of Columbia Health Department considers the conference to have been a low risk exposure and advised recipients to consult with Centers for Disease Control guidelines on preventing contracting the virus.

The conference, which ran from Friday through Tuesday, attracted 18,000 activists. AIPAC took precautions during the conference in consultation with District of Columbia health authorities including adding hand sanitation dispensers and adding cleaners to disinfect highly trafficked areas.

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Tel Mond, Israel, a Sarasota Sister City, possesses a significant Sephardic Jewish population. Historically identified with the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa, Sephardic Jews are found throughout the world today but especially in Israel, France and the U.S.

In late February, the Tel Mond Sister City Committee sponsored a Tastes of Sephardic Cooking and Culture program at Arts Center Sarasota. The sold-out gathering featured a range of dishes prepared by local chef Liora Bruck. Guests not only learned about the origins of different recipes but also about the dispersion of Sephardic Jewry following the Spanish Inquisition in 1492, and many remarkable personalities of Sephardic descent.

The initial Jewish settlement in colonial America occurred when 23 Sephardic Jews arrived in New Amsterdam (today New York City) in 1654 after fleeing the Inquisition in northern Brazil.

The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee is the principal sponsor of the Tel Mond-Sarasota Sister City relationship. Sister Cities Association of Sarasota (SCAS) fosters people-to-people connections between Sarasota and Perpignan, France; Vladimir, Russia; Tel Mond, Israel; Dunfermline, Scotland; Xiamen, China; Mrida, Yucatan, Mexico and Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland. SACS's "citizen diplomacy" facilitates cultural, educational and trade exchanges that often lead to lifelong friendships.

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Yaron Zilberman's Incitement is a fine example of the dramatized history lesson that fills in the gaps of our knowledge on the subject of who did what to whom, and why, in the seemingly eternal political turmoil of modern-day Israel. In this case the subject is the 1995 assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, a crime committed to avenge Rabin's rapprochement with the Palestinian people with the emphasis on the assassin, a religiously motivated young Jewish idealist named Yigal Amir.

We've seen several well-meaning movies about Arab terrorists in the Middle East and what drives them to take action. Now here's one about the rightwing Israeli variety. Yigal (played in a lather by actor Yehuda Nahari Halevi) is a Tel Aviv law student with Sephardic dark good looks and apparently bright prospects. However, he's in a state of mental agitation at the thought of the "traitor Rabin" promoting peace with the Palestinians. Egged on by belligerent rabbis, Yigal and his nationalist friends take part in anti-Palestinian demonstrations and cheer the infamous Hebron Massacre, in which 29 Arabs were murdered in a mosque by an American-Israeli extremist.

Everyone Yigal associates with with the possible exception of his parents and his Ashkenazi soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend (Daniella Kertesz) spends much of their time poring through Hebrew religious texts searching for a justification of their prejudices. A guy named Avishai (Ranaan Paz) belongs to the combative Jewish Defense League. Yigal's ex-army buddies are willing to give him stolen military weapons, no questions asked. But much of the fire inside Yigal is stoked by saber-rattling religious leaders who see Rabin's peace initiatives as a sellout of the Jewish people, a betrayal that must be paid for in blood. "This is God's will and it must be fulfilled" is what Yigal hears a classic refrain in any arena of sectarian strife, anywhere in the world. Yigal stocks up on handguns and hollow-point ammo, the kind that does the most damage to the target's body. "Someone has to save our people," he declares.

All the while, we're watching the buildup to a climax we already know beforehand. That's the trouble with this type of true-events pic, particularly the ones featuring deadly force. There's no suspense, only tension. All the usual excuses for violent action in the service of self-righteous ideology get trotted out in Yigal's measured, steady progression toward political murder, and they're familiar to the point of ridiculousness. Someone asserts: "Democracy is the rule of the people, but what is the people compared to God?" A better reason to take up an alternative life of secular humanism would be difficult to find.

Incitement is the first feature by Israeli director Zilberman he wrote the scenario with Ron Leshem and Yair Hizmi. Zilberman gets a wonderfully scary bit of role-playing from frequent TV actor Halevi, backed up by the naturalistic presence of Yoav Levi and Anat Ravnitzki as Yigal's worried parents; Sivan Mast as his very last girlfriend, a well-connected student named Margalit; the aforementioned Paz as nationalist firebrand Avishai; and Gur Ya'ari as Margalit's aloof and slightly sinister uncle, one of several rightwing rabbis we listen in on. Yigal's inner motivation is a bit harder to pick out. He served as a soldier like almost everyone else in his country, keeping the Arabs down. His parents, especially his mother, have a fairly narrow-minded world view they're Jews who have lived their lives facing varying degrees of threat. When Yigal's father finally sits his son down and tries to lecture him out of his increasingly militant tendencies, the speech arrives years too late. The rabbis and yeshiva hotheads have already radicalized Yigal irretrievably.

The scene of the actual assassination is a skillful mlange of newsreel footage and re-created inserts of Yigal stalking his prey at a rally in Tel Aviv with Rabin essentially playing himself (as does future Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the film's gray eminence, in other scenes). On his way to shooting down his perceived enemy, Yigal passes posters put up by Netanyahu's allies, of Rabin dressed in a German Nazi uniform. Incitement does not steer us to any conclusions in its portrait of the Travis-Bickle-like Yigal, a guy who ideally should never have had access to either ultra-religious bigotry or firearms. Instead, we're drawn into Yigal's frame of reference and then left alone to make up our own minds about the general advisability of killing our political foes. The film requires us to do our own thinking. As the progressive-minded American author Studs Terkel was fond of saying, "Take it easy, but take it."

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Gathering 28 years to the day when 613 Azerbaijanis were murdered on 25 February 1992, the American Sephardi Federation (ASF) and Muslim American Leadership Alliance (MALA) hosted the 2nd "Looking in, Speaking Out: Commemorating Khojaly and Standing Against Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing" event at the Center for Jewish History.

The event brought together a diverse audience to "remember to victims of ethnic violence, and to acknowledge that effects of genocide do not stay limited to where it was committed. As Martin Luther King, the visionary leader of American civil rights said, "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere," according to MALA's Founder and Chair Zainab Khan. "We stand in solidarity with our Jewish brothers and sisters, and other victims and survivors everywhere, from Cambodia to Rwanda to Bosnia and beyond. It is imperative that public knowledge of such crimes expands if we are true to our 'Never Again' slogan. We need to be aware that without vigilance, such scenarios may not be just events of the past," Khan added.

Speakers included Sami Steigmann, a Holocaust survivor from Romania, MALA Deputy Director Ahmed Flex Omar, a survivor of the Isaaq Genocide, and Agil Huseynov, a member of the Azerbaijani diaspora community.

Steigmann spoke about the intellectual and moral imperative to use terms "Holocaust," "Genocide," "Nazi," and "Concentration Camp" properly, to reject emotionalism and embrace moderation, as well as to engage constantly in education and dialogue. While previously unaware, he promised to incorporate what he had learned about Khojaly in preparation for the event in his lectures throughout the year to increase awareness.

Huseynov said: "...the tragedy of Khojaly is not to be treated in isolation or perceived as a mere accident of the Nagorno-Karabakh war. It is a monstrous and alarming manifestation of intolerance, xenophobia, and aggression... Nothing can prevent this from happening again unless all of us join our efforts in commemorating this tragedy, honoring its victims, and standing up against xenophobia with a unified message of tolerance, coexistence, and peace."

The ASF's Executive Director Jason Guberman spoke about how this event is part of efforts that began in May, when, in observance of Yom HaShoah and during the United States Holocaust Remembrance Week, Sheikh Dr. Mohammad Abdulkarim Al-Issa announced the "It Stops Now" https://youtu.be/p_3lnYhQ_7g (See video).

Agreement against hate, bigotry, and fanaticism, signed by the Muslim World League and Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations with the American Sephardi Federation.

More recently, Sheikh Dr. Al-Issa went to Auschwitz, where he declared "'...On behalf of Muslim scholars and in the name of Muslim peoples under the umbrella of the Muslim World League" that the "Holocaust is truly the most horrific crime in human history, in which six million Jews perished at the hands of Hitler's Nazi regime...'"

Guberman concluded by speaking of the significance of the number 613 in Jewish tradition and paralleled the "Taryag" victims with the commandments: "If you investigate the writings of the Hakahmim (or Sephardic sages), the purpose of the mitzvot is to benefit humanity, to make people more sensitive to each other, and, in so doing, to serve God. It can be argued then that the atrocity we are commemorating today that extinguished 613 innocent lives did the opposite. It sowed discovered and dissent... Here we are of different religions and different ethnicities finding unity and common ground that the perpetrators of Khojaly sought to destroy and deny to this day."

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Right-wing extremists were responsible for a majority of extremist-related murders in the United States last year, according to a report by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).

Of the 42 extremist-related murders in the nation last year, 38 were committed by individuals subscribing to various far-right ideologies, including white supremacy, the ADLs annual Murder and Extremism report found. Last year was the sixth deadliest for extremist-related violence since 1970.

There were 17 separate incidents last year with the deadliest being the attack by a white supremacist at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, which left 22 people dead and at least 24 wounded. White supremacists were responsible for 81 percent of the domestic extremist-related murders in 2019, while right-wing extremists were responsible for 90 percent last year. Since 2010, right-wing extremists have been responsible for 330 deaths, or 76 percent of all domestic extremist-related murders within that time.

Over the last decade, right-wing extremists have been responsible for more than 75 percent of extremist-related murders in this country, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said. This should no longer come as a shock to anyone. Lawmakers, law enforcement, and the public need to recognize the grave and dangerous threat posed by violent white supremacy. We cannot begin to defeat this deadly form of hatred if we fail to even recognize it.

The past five years include four of the deadliest years on record for extremist murders. The number of extremist-related fatalities in the United States declined slightly in 2019 from the previous year, which saw 53 extremist-related deaths. But last years total was higher than in 2017 when 41 deaths were recorded.

Guns were involved in 86 percent of last years deaths. In the past decade, 315 of the 435 people (72 percent) killed in the United States by extremists were shot to death.

The ADL also found that last year was the first year since 2012 that no killings linked to domestic Islamist extremism occurred. However, the ADL says the United States did experience what appears to be its first lethal foreign terror attack in America since 9/11 when a Saudi Arabian aviation student thought to be motivated by Islamist extremism killed three people at Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida in December.

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In the spring of 1945, as the war in Europe was drawing to a close, a US Army unit began the liberation of Buchenwald, one of Nazi Germanys largest concentration camps. It was the first such camp American forces had encountered. They alerted the office of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe, about what they had found.

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The details of that report so shocked and alarmed Eisenhower that, even in the midst of his final push to win the war, he felt compelled to go and see the camp for himself. He described what he found in a cable:

Even to such man as Eisenhower, inured as he was to the horrors of war, seeing the Holocaust first-hand shook him to the core. He wanted the world to know about it and requested that Members of Congress and journalists be brought to the liberated camps so that they could see the evidence of evil themselves and could report back to the public about what they encountered.

Decades later, as part of a Congressional Delegation, I traveled to Auschwitz in the company of Holocaust survivors. To stand on those grounds and bear witnesses to the atrocities that had happened there was emotionally daunting, but a responsibility I felt compelled to fulfill.

As I walked through the concentration camp, and heard accounts of what happened there, I found myself whispering over and over - the promise that the whole world made when those horrors first became known: Never Again. As a former teacher, I dont believe I have ever heard about, or witnessed a more powerful lesson. It is one I know I will never forget.

That is why I was so deeply concerned by a survey released last year by the Claims Conference in Germany showing that Americans are shockingly uneducated about the horrors of the Holocaust. The survey showed that 49% of millennials cannot name a single concentration camp, 31% of Americans believe that just two million or fewer Jews were killed in the Holocaust and 52% of Americans erroneously think Hitler came to power through force.

I believe that this lack of knowledge is a danger to combatting anti-Semitism and in fact may be a contributing factor to the alarming rise in anti-Semitism that we are seeing here in the United States. Last month, an expert from the FBI testified to Congress that In just the last 18 months, anti-Semitic terrorism has devastated Jewish communities from Pueblo to Poway to Pittsburgh to Jersey City. According to the Anti-Defamation League, anti-Semitic incidents in this country spiked by 60% between 2016 and 2017.

In order to combat this spread of hate, we need to be proactive. I believe that starts in our classrooms. That is why I authored H.R. 943, the Never Again Education Act.

This bill will expand the US Holocaust Memorial Museums already impressive education programming, and require the Museum to develop and disseminate accurate, relevant, and accessible resources to teachers across the country, to promote understanding about how and why the Holocaust happened.

Children are not born with hate in their hearts; it is up to us to make sure they never learn it.

As a former educator, I know firsthand how hard it can be to write lesson plans, so the bill mandates that the Museum maintains a website that will serve as a centralized database of high-quality curriculum materials so that teachers from all across the country have the tools they need to teach about the dangers of intolerance, hate, and anti-Semitism.

I am so glad to report that the House voted overwhelmingly to pass this bill on January 27, 2020, 75 years after the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

The bill now awaits action in the Senate. Passing it there would send a clear, united message that we recognize the singular importance of the Holocaust, support education on the subject and stand together against anti-Semitism. And that we will truly, never forget.

Carolyn B. Maloney is a United States congresswoman.

The views and opinions expressed in this article are the authors own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Forward.

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The Boston-based Jewish Federation, Combined Jewish Philanthropies (CJP), recently honored a local activist with ties to the anti-Israel group IfNotNow.

Nadav David is listed as one of CJPs 2020 Chai in the Hub honorees, which the organization describes as young adults are doing amazing things personally and professionally to better Greater Bostons Jewish community.

In his CJP profile, David works as a financial coach with Compass Working Capital and as a community organizer. Among the organizations he describes being involved with are Kavod, Boston Foundation Neighborhood Fellows Program, Tzedek Lab, Boston Ujima Project and Muslim Justice League.

Ujima Boston has also been involved in a Boston divestment campaign, which included targeting the State of Israel.

David, who is a Northeastern University graduate and former Hillel board member, spoke at an IfNotNow affiliated rally outside of Northeastern Hillel in April 2019.

Wearing a shirt saying Birthright and Hillel: Its time to part, David described his time as a student at Hillel and his own disillusionment with Northeastern Hillel, which he accused of only promoting right-wing speakers and programs.

As I was grappling with the realities of occupation and the realities of Palestinians being oppressed, I also grappled with the reality of my familys own history, as Mizrahi Jews and Arab Jews, being displaced and targeted by the Israeli government throughout the Israeli states history. And seeing the lengths in which this was connected to the oppression and displacement of the Palestinians, he said.

I immediately found there was no place for it. Hillel continued to bring only far-right Israel speakers to campus and continued to invest in fighting BDS, he said.

Founded in 2014, IfNotNow has increasingly drawn headlines for its opposition to Zionism and criticism of American Jewish organizations support for Israel.

According to the anti-Semitism watchdog group Canary Mission, IfNowNow has a particular focus on disruptive protests of pro-Israel events and institutions. To this end, INN have held multiple sit-in protests in the lobbies of buildings housing mainstream Jewish organizations.

The organization describes itself as steeped both in left-wing protest and Jewish tradition that seeks to end American Jewish support for the occupation.

In particular, the group is known for its campaigns against Birthright Israel groups and Jewish summer camps, which they claim do not include information to its participants about the Israeli occupation. They have also protested other mainstream Jewish and pro-Israel groups such as the Anti-Defamation League, Jewish Community Relations Council and AIPAC.

More recently, the group approached leading Democratic presidential candidates to ask if they would be skipping the annual AIPAC Policy Conference, which took place March 1-3. The ploy apparently worked, keeping Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren from attending.

IfNotNow has also developed a strategic partnership with the anti-Israel group American Muslims for Palestine.

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In a statement to JNS, CJP spokeswoman Karen Kuwayti did not address the ties between David and IfNotNow.

Chai in the Hub winners are nominated by their peers, friends and colleagues. In choosing the honorees, we consider their contributions in a variety of areas including education, volunteering, spirituality, social justice, leadership, arts and culture, she said. We honored a diverse group of people from across our community. The event celebrates the values that we share.

Charles Jacobs, head of the Boston-based Americans for Peace and Tolerance, told JNS that he is not surprised by their endorsement of an activist tied to IfNotNow.

This is an outrage, but on the other hand should be no surprise to those who over the years have seen CJP embracing the left, and abandoning the defense of Israel and indeed the Jewish community, he said.

Like much of the Jewish establishment around the country, Bostons CJP is flummoxed by the lefts turn against Israel and has no strategy to deal with this huge change on the battlefield of ideas, continued Jacobs. Rather than painfully rethink their strategy, it continues to embrace an increasingly hostile left in the hopes it will change minds, as well as denying threats from every source of Jew-hatred except the right.

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An Arizona neo-Nazi involved in an antisemitic campaign of harassment against Jewish journalists and anti-hate activists will stay behind bars after a Phoenix judge determined that he remained a threat to the larger community.

Judge John Boyle ordered Johnny Roman Garza, 20, of Queen Creek, Arizona, to remain in jail following a hearing on Monday. Boyleexpressed skepticism regarding Garzas claim to have severed ties with the violent neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division, noting that officers discovered a bulletproof vest during a search of Garzas home.

Thats not something a 20-year-old would normally have, Boyle said.

Garza was one of four neo-Nazis arrested by the FBI on Feb. 26 in an operation across four states. The other members of the violent extremist group were named asCameron Brandon Shea, 24, of Redmond, Washington; Kaleb Cole, 24, of Montgomery, Texas; and Taylor Ashley Parker-Dipeppe, 20, of Spring Hill, Florida.

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The group focused primarily on Jewish or journalists of color, according to the FBI.

These defendants from across the country allegedly conspired on the internet to intimidate journalists and activists with whom they disagreed, said Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers in a statement immediately following the arrests. This is not how America works. The Department of Justice will not tolerate this type of behavior.

One of the groups targets wasMala Blomquist, an editor for Arizona Jewish Life magazine. A poster glued to her house in early February displayed Nazi symbols alongside the threat, Your Actions Have Consequences.

My home is my sanctuary. To have somebody impede upon you like that, its never OK, Blomquist who is not Jewish herself told local broadcaster KSL.com on Monday. The fact somebody came on my property and put something that disgusting on my window, that bothered me. I dont want to say PTSD for people who really have it, but it was a traumatic experience.

In a previous interview with ABC News, Blomquist remarked thata lot of people who arent Jewish dont realize that antisemitism, hate crimes are on the rise.

Continued Blomquist: Weve got to fight the hate. Youve got to come forward. Its that adage if you see something, say something. We cant hide anymore.

According to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) , the Atomwaffen Division German for atomic weapons emerged in 2016, created by members of Iron March, a now-defunct white supremacist discussion forum.

Atomwaffen distinguishes itself by its extreme rhetoric, influenced by the writings of a neo-Nazi of an earlier generation, James Mason, who admired Charles Manson and supported the idea of lone wolf violence, an ADL briefing explained. Members of Atomwaffen have already been connected to several murders in the groups short history.

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BRIDGEWATER, NJ A joyous and happy occasion for a Bridgewater couple who welcomed their first child turned into a tragedy when Maggie Gilbert died last week because of complications after giving... Read more

READINGTON, NJ Great news for balloon lovers: The highly popular and anticipated annual New Jersey Festival of Ballooning for 2020 has been saved. A new sponsor has stepped up to allow the festival... Read more

BASKING RIDGE, NJ Lifelong Basking Ridge resident Nancy Bellai has always had a passion for dogs. What started as a way to make extra cash on the side has turned into her own business, Fur Out Pet... Read more

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