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When Your Body Is Someone Else's Haunted House
When Your Body Is Someone Else's Haunted House
People gather for an interfaith vigil for the victims of the shooting in the Tree of Life Synagogue in Los Angeles, California, on October 28, 2018. (Ronen Tivony/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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By Bari Weiss
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When Your Body Is Someone Else's Haunted House

Tomorrow marks three years since the massacre at Tree of Life, the most lethal attack on Jews in American history and a watershed event in the lives of so many I love.

I find myself pulled back to that time. To the shock I felt. To the sense I had immediately that the country I thought I lived in was changing in radical ways, even if I didn’t yet fully …

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Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.
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