In a dvar-Torah for this week's portion, Vayera, Steve Masters, member of Congregation Mishkan Shalom and a board member of Brit Tzedek v'Shalom compares war to child sacrifice.

I want to suggest to you that it is hard to make the case that we as a culture no longer value human sacrifice. What is the respect and honor that all modern societies pay to their soldiers who were killed in battle other than the showing of respect and honor for their human sacrifice in the course of the fill-in-the-blank war?

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