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In the age of Gaza's destruction and endless turmoil, the Conservative Movement's flagship seminary has launched an MFA in creative writing, led by award-winning Israeli author Etgar Keret. The program hopes to offer a sanctuary for Jewish writers who feel excluded elsewhere
NEW YORK – On a Sunday night in early September, the main hall at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Manhattan didn't feel like a seminary at all. The room buzzed like a comedy club, a book launch and a town-hall debate rolled into one.
