There’s one critical question many are failing to ask as they scramble to rescue our institutions and shore them up financially: whether the Jewish world is ready for the spiritual transformation this plague is going to unleash.

Few individuals emerge from a brush with death unaffected. It changes you, makes you question values and attitudes, alters your views on the meaning of life, and subjects your religious beliefs to a grueling stress test...

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