Growing up, I thought that only my family knew Debbie Friedman’s music. But it was her gift to the entire world.
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The musician Debbie Friedman, who died Sunday, helped inaugurate liberal Judaism’s sing-along style of worship and awaken her listeners to an inclusive, progressive, and accessible strain of spirituality
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