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Every year the New Jersey Jewish News prints excerpts from local rabbis’ High Holy Days sermons. This year, I put the text of the sermons through the Word Frequency Counter at WriteWords, which is a really fun tool. That gave me a list of some of the most-repeated words in the sermons, which I asked NJJN artist Michele Perez to turn into a montage. The cool results, a snapshot of Jewish concerns and anxieties, are above.

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