Reproductive freedom is a Jewish value, and we’re going to honor it!

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Parshat Mishpatim

Repro Shabbat is an annual Shabbat celebration that honors the Jewish value of reproductive freedom. It takes place annually on Parshat Mishpatim, the reading of which contains the verses commonly referenced as the foundation of Judaism’s approach to reproductive health, rights, and justice. Individuals and communities across the world gather to celebrate Repro Shabbat and the Jewish traditions it honors. Participation can take many forms.

Judaism offers a critical perspective on reproductive freedom that is too often unheard in our public discourse — one needed for both our moral imagination and understanding of our First Amendment rights.

Repro Shabbat is a time for communities and individuals to connect, educate, and activate towards a more whole future for everyone.

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When you sign up, you are joining a movement to explore issues of reproductive freedom and abortion access from a Jewish perspective. You will gain access to curated resources — like a conversation guide, a study guide, a Shabbat Spotify playlist, recipes, and more. We’ll even email you (not too much, we promise) additional resources and planning tips.

Featured Events

  • Friday Night Services + Dinner
    Feb 9, 2024 | 7:00 pm ET
    Hybrid - Both virtual & in-person

    In honor of Repro Shabbat, hear from Sarah Flores-Shannon, Foundation Relations Manager at the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), who will touch on NCJW’s fight to expand abortion access and guarantee reproductive freedom nationwide.

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  • Repro Shabbat Havdalah and Briefing
    Feb 10, 2024 | 7:30pm ET
    Virtual

    Join Hadassah, partner organizations, elected officials, and local clergy to learn about state-wide efforts to ensure reproductive freedom in Maryland. The Declaration of Rights - Right to Reproductive Freedom, a statewide referendum that will enshrine the right to abortion in Maryland’s constitution, will also be discussed (on the Maryland ballot in the 2024 Election).

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  • Repro Shabbat
    Feb 9, 2024 | 7pm AKST
    Hybrid - Both virtual & in-person

    We are honored to have Alaska's Planned Parenthood State Director to come and report to our community what Planned Parenthood has accomplished in improving reproductive rights.

    Watch Live on YouTube

  • After Dobbs: Reproductive Freedom Through a Jewish Lens
    Feb 10, 2024 | 7pm ET
    In-person

    "Under G-d” is a short documentary that follows the national Jewish response to the Dobbs decision, and how Jewish leaders are asking the United States to protect women, and democracy, by preserving the separation of ChurcRegister or Learn More linkh and State. After the film, we will have a panel discussion and question and answer session with experts in both Jewish law and reproductive and equal rights. The discussion will be followed by dessert.

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  • Repro Rights Shabbat
    Feb 9, 2024, 7:30pm ET
    Services are hybrid. Film screening is in-person only

    Please join TBE clergy and members of the Girls Just Want to Have Choices TriBE as we host our first Repro Rights Shabbat. Following worship, join us for a screening of Under G-d, an Official Selection of the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. If you intend to stay for the film, please register. An oneg will follow.

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  • Repro Shabbat
    Feb 17, 2024, 9:30am ET
    Hybrid - Both virtual & in-person

    Temple Emunah is excited to welcome Susan Yanow, MSW. She is a cofounder of Women Help Women, an international organization that provides medication abortion services, and is the spokesperson for SASS – Self-Managed Abortion; Safe and Supported in the USA. She consults to the Later Abortion Initiative at Ibis Reproductive Health and coordinates EASE – Expanding Abortion Services in the South. She also consults to The Massachusetts Medical Abortion Access Project (The MAP), which provides medication abortion across the US under the MA Shield Law.

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  • Repro Shabbat
    Feb 9, 2024 | 6:30pm PT
    Hybrid - Both virtual & in-person

    Jessica Pinckney Gil, Executive Director of Access Reproductive Justice, will be our guest speaker during this special service. We will also have representatives from Planned Parenthood Northern California leading conversations and a letter-writing action at the Oneg in Stern Hall after services.

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  • Repro Shabbat

    Feb 9, 2024 | 6:15pm CT

    Hybrid - Both virtual & in-person

    Attorney Jeff Mandel, co-founder and board president of Law Forward, will be speaking about the state of reproductive rights in Wisconsin

    Watch Live

  • Kiddush Club: Repro Shabbat w/ Erica Wilson-Domer, President and CEO, Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio
    Feb 10, 2024 | 12:30pm ET
    In-person

    Join us for an educational discussion about reproductive rights in Ohio with our rabbis and guest speaker Erica Wilson-Domer, President and CEO, Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio.

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  • Kabbalat Shabbat Service
    Feb 9, 2024 | 6pm ET
    Hybrid - Both virtual & in-person

    Kabbalat Shabbat service will feature d'var torah by Shira Zemel, NCJW Abortion Access Campaign Co-Director

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  • Repro Shabbat
    Feb 9, 2024 | 6pm ET
    Hybrid - Both virtual & in-person

    Repro Shabbat services will welcome Ben Luks-Morgan, NCJW's Rabbinic Fellow, as our featured speaker.

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  • Repro Shabbat
    Feb. 9, 2024 | 6pm ET
    Hybrid - Both virtual & in-person

    Kabbalat Shabbat services will feature Alannah Boyle, NCJW's State Policy Network Manager.

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    Feb. 8, 2024 | 6pm ET
    Virtual

    The New York-based Brigid Alliance coordinates and pays for travel, expenses, childcare, and other logistical support, serving as a single, trusted point of contact for every step of the journey to one of their partner clinics. Join us over zoom to hear directly from their Executive Director, Serra Sippel, and have an opportunity to ask questions and find out what you can do to protect and broaden abortion access in our state.

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  • LIFE AFTER PASSING ISSUE 1
    Feb. 9, 2024 | 12pm ET
    Virtual

    Please join us for a virtual Lunch and Learn with Dr. Lauren Beene, co-founder and Executive Director of Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights, who will discuss hurdles faced while working on passing Issue 1 and what problems may arise in the future.

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Participating Communities & Organizations

  • Congregation Beth Sholom — Anchorage

    Congregation Sukkat Shalom — Juneau

  • Congregation Or Tzion — Scottsdale

    Hillel at Arizona State University — Tempe

    Temple Emanuel of Tempe — Tempe

    Tucson Jewish Secular Circle — Tucson

  • NCJW of Canada - Vancouver — Vancouver

    Or Shalom Synagogue — Vancouver

  • Temple Beth Emet / Jewish Collaborative of OC — Anaheim

    Temple Beth El — Aptos

    Congregation Am Tikvah — San Francisco

    Congregation Beth El — Berkeley

    Congregation Bet Haverim — Davis

    Congregation B'nai Harim — Grass Valley

    Congregation Emanu El — Redlands

    HaNefesh — Irvine

    NCJW of Greater Long Beach and Orange County — Long Beach

    Congregation Beth Am — Los Altos Hills

    Hillel at UCLA — Los Angeles

    IKAR — Los Angeles

    Loyola Marymount University Hillel — Los Angeles

    Temple Israel of Hollywood — Los Angeles

    Jewish Values in Action, Temple Beth El of South Orange County — Midway City

    Congregation Emeth — Morgan Hill

    Temple Sinai — Oakland

    Hasidah — Palo Alto

    Tri-Valley Cultural Jews — Pleasanton

    Path With Heart - Hineni Community — Richmond

    Beth Israel — San Diego

    Peninsula Temple Beth El — San Mateo

    Keeping It Sacred — Sherman Oaks

    NA'AMAT USA — Woodland Hills

    Temple Israel of Alameda — Alameda

    Moishe House Encinitas — Encinitas

    Congregation B'Nai Israel — Sacramento

    Mosaic Law — Sacramento

    SF Hillel — San Francisco

    Congregation B'nai Emet — Simi Valley

    Congregation Beth Shalom — Carmichael

    Temple Beth Israel — Fresno

    Temple Isaiah — Lafayette

    Beth Chayim Chadashim — Los Angeles

    Hadassah — Westlake Village

    Temple Israel — Long Beach

    Congregation Rodef Sholom — San Rafael

    Kehilla Community Synagogue — Oakland

    B’nai Horin — Santa Monica

    Temple Beth Hillel — Valley Village

  • Beth Ami - CO Congregation for Humanistic Judaism — Boulder

    BMH-BJ — Denver

    NCJW Colorado Section — Denver

    Congregation Beth Evergreen — Evergreen

    Repair the World — Longmont

    Cobalt — Denver

    Rodef Shalom — Littleton

    Congregation Har HaShem — Boulder

    Temple Sinai — Denver

  • B'nai Tikvoh-Sholom/Neshama Center — Bloomfield

    Congregation B'nai Israel — Bridgeport

    Farmington Valley Jewish Congregation-Emek Shalom — Simsbury

    B'nai Israel — Southbury

    Trinity College Hillel — Hartford

    Temple Beth El — Stamford

    Congregation B'nai Israel — Danbury

    Congregation Beth Shalom Rodfe Zedek — Chester

  • American University Hillel — DC

    Adas Israel Congregation — DC

    Hill Havurah — DC

    Makela A Cappella — DC

    Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism L'Taken — DC

    Temple Micah — DC

    Temple Sinai — DC

    Sixth & I — DC

    Washington Hebrew Congregation — DC

    Hillel at The George Washington University — DC

    Spark Media — DC

    Bet Mishpachah — DC

  • Office of Congresswoman Lois Frankel — Delray Beach

    Congregation Beth Adam — Boca Raton

    Congregation Beth Shalom — Clearwater

    Congregation Bnai Israel Gainesville Florida — Gainesville

    The Waterford Shabbat Group c/o Jan Whitcomb — Juno Beach

    Temple Beth Israel — Longboat Key

    Sisterhood of Temple Israel of Greater Miami — Miami

    Temple Israel of Greater Miami — Miami

    NCJW Greater Miami Section — Miami Beach

    Temple Beth Sholom — Miami Beach

    Naples Jewish Congregation — Naples

    Temple Judea — Palm Beach Gardens

    Congregation Kol Tikvah — Parkland

    Temple Beth-El — Saint Petersburg

    Temple Shir Shalom — Winter Springs

    Harbours Edge — Boca Raton

    Temple Bat Yam — Fort Lauderdale

    Temple Beth Shalom — Ocala

    Temple B’nai Israel — Clearwater

    Temple Beth Am — Pinecrest

    Jewish Democratic Women for Action — Boca Raton

    Temple Beth Shira — Boca Raton

  • Congregation B'nai Torah — Atlanta

    NCJW Atlanta — Atlanta

    Temple Sinai — Sandy Springs

    Ahavath Achim Synagogue — Atlanta

    Congregation Or Hadash — Sandy Springs

    Congregation Shearith Israel — Atlanta

    The Temple — Atlanta

    Emory University Hillel — Atlanta

    Temple Beth Tefilloh — Brunswick

    Agudath Achim — Savannah

  • CJE SeniorLife — Chicago

    Emanuel Congregation — Chicago

    Mishkan Chicago — Chicago

    Congregation BJBE — Deerfield

    Northwestern Hillel — Evanston

    NA'AMAT USA — Highland Park

    Shir Tikvah — Homewood

    JCC Chicago Teens — Northbrook

    NCJW Chicago North Shore — Northbrook

    Temple Jeremiah — Northfield

    Beth Hillel Bnai Emunah — Wilmette

    Central Synagogue of Chicago — Chicago

    Chicago Sinai Congregation — Chicago

    Congregation Beth Shalom — Northbrook

    Congregation Beth Am — Buffalo Grove

    Anshe Emet Synagogue — Chicago

    Caplan Consulting — Chicago

    Temple Sholom — Chicago

    KAM Isaiah Israel — Chicago

    Beth Emet The Free Synagogue — Evanston

    Aitz Hayim Center for Jewish Living — Glencoe

    IL NOW — Naperville

  • Purdue Hillel — West Lafayette

    Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation — Indianapolis

    Temple Beit Shalom — Munster

    Congregation Beth Shalom — Bloomington

  • The Temple, Congregation B'nai Jehudah — Leawood

    Congregation Emanu-El — Wichita

    Congregation Beth Torah — Eudora

  • Congregation Adath Jeshurun — Louisville

    Keneseth Israel Congregation — Louisville

    The Temple — Louisville

  • Temple Gemiluth Chassodim — Alexandria

    B’nai Israel — Monroe

    NCJW Greater New Orleans — New Orleans

    Unified Jewish Congregation — Baton Rouge

    Agudath Achim — Shreveport

    Touro Synagogue — New Orleans

  • Congregation Bet Ha'am — South Portland

  • Bolton Street Synagogue — Baltimore

    Chevrei Tzedek Congregation Baltimore

    Hadassah Greater Baltimore — Baltimore

    UMBC Hillel Baltimore

    Congregation Beth El — Bethesda

    the Den Collective — Bethesda

    Beth Shalom Congregation — Columbia

    Columbia Jewish Congregation — Columbia

    Congregation Or Chadash — Damascus

    Mishkan Torah — Greenbelt

    Oseh Shalom — Laurel

    Washington Hebrew Congregation — Potomac

    B'nai Israel Congregation — Rockville

    Kol Shalom — Rockville

    Kol HaLev — Towson

    University of Maryland Hillel — College Park

    Bethesda Jewish Congregation — Bethesda

    Har Sinai-Oheb Shalom Congregation — Baltimore

    Temple Emanuel — Kensington

  • Jewish Community of Amherst — Amherst

    Keshet — Auburndale

    Virtual Jewish Community Havdalah — Boston

    Temple Ohabei Shalom — Brookline

    Temple Beth David of the South Shore — Canton

    Temple Beth Emunah — Canton

    Falmouth Jewish Congregation — East Falmouth

    Hevreh of Southern Berkshire — Great Barrington

    Temple Emunah — Lexington

    Temple Isaiah — Lexington

    Minyan Ma'or at Temple Emanuel — Newton Center

    Congregation Beth Jacob — Plymouth

    Mount Holyoke JSU — South Hadley

    Sinai Temple — Springfield

    Congregation Or Atid — Wayland

    Temple Shir Tikva — Wayland

    Temple Beth Elohim, Congregants for Reproductive Justice — Wellesley Hills

    Congregation Ahavas Achim — Westfield

    Temple Shir Tikvah — Winchester

    Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center — Vineyard Haven

    Congregation Beth Israel — North Adams

    Temple Ohabei Shalom — Brookline

    Temple Shalom — West Newton

    Congregation Sha'aray Shalom — Hingham

    Tifereth Israel Congregation — New Bedford

    Temple Israel of Sharon — Sharon

    Temple B'nai Abraham — Beverly

    Temple Hillel B’nai Torah — West Roxbury

  • Cong. for Humanistic Judaism of Metro Detroit — Farmington Hills

    Temple B'nai Israel — Kalamazoo

    Temple Emanu-El — Oak Park

    Temple Shir Shalom — West Bloomfield

    University of Michigan Hillel — Ann Arbor

    Temple Israel — West Bloomfield

  • Temple Israel — Duluth

    Beth El Synagogue — Minneapolis

    Temple Israel Minneapolis — Minneapolis

    Adath Jeshurun Congregation — Minnetonka

    Bet Shalom Congregation — Minnetonka

    Jewish Students of Carleton — Northfield

  • Faith In Women — Jackson

  • Access MO — Saint Louis

    Central Reform Congregation — Saint Louis

    Congregation Shaare Emeth — Saint Louis

    Kol Rinah — Saint Louis

    Congreegation Kol Ami-KC — Kansas City

    Shir Hadash Reconstructionist Community — Saint Louis

    Congregation B’nai Amoona — Saint Louis

    Mizzou Hillel — Columbia

  • Glacier Jewish Community, Bnei Shalom — Kalispell

  • The Radical Cat — Reno

    Yalla Reno — Reno

  • Hillel at Dartmouth — Hanover

    Temple Israel — Portsmouth

    Temple Beth Jacob — Concord

  • Congregation Or Chadash — Flemington

    Flemington JCC — Flemington

    Glen Rock Jewish Center — Glen Rock

    Barnert Temple — Franklin Lakes

    Temple Beth-El — Hillsborough

    Temple B'nai Abraham — Livingston

    Beth Haverim Shir Shalom — Mahwah

    Congregation Shomrei Emunah — Montclair

    Temple B'nai Or — Morristown

    Rutgers Hillel — New Brunswick

    Temple Avodat Shalom — River Edge

    Sharey Tefilo Israel Senior Youth — South Orange

    Temple Beth Ahm Yisrael — Springfield

    Temple Emeth — Teaneck

    Temple Sinai — Tenafly

    Temple Emanu-El of Westfield — Westfield

    Beth Israel Congregation — Vineland

    Marlboro Jewish Center — Marlboro

    Temple Shalom — Aberdeen

    Temple Beth Shalom — Livingston

    Congregation B'nai Israel — Millburn

    NCJW Bergen County — North Bergen

    Beacon Unitarian Universalist — Summit

    Congregation Torat El — Oakhurst

    Jewish Center of Northwest Jersey — Washington

  • Congregation B'nai Yisrael — Armonk

    Temple Concord-Binghamton — Binghamton

    Beth El of City Island — Bronx

    East Midwood Jewish Center — Brooklyn

    Kane Street Synagogue — Brooklyn

    Tarrant County Twenties — Fort Worth

    Temple Beth El of Huntington — Huntington

    Kehillath Shalom Synagogue — Huntington Station

    Temple Beth El Huntington Sisterhood — Huntington Station

    Temple Am Echad — Lynbrook

    B'nai Jeshurun — New York

    Central Synagogue — New York

    Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York — New York

    Congregation Habonim — New York

    Fort Tryon Jewish Center — New York

    Hebrew Tabernacle Congregation — New York

    Hunter Hillel — New York

    Lab/Shul — New York

    NYU Hillel — New York

    Temple Israel of the City of New York — New York

    Temple Shaaray Tefilia — New York

    West End Synagogue — New York

    Temple Brith Kodesh — Rochester

    Temple Sinai — Rochester

    Community Synagogue Of Rye — Rye

    Congregation Kol Ami — Scarsdale

    Westchester Community for Humanistic Judaism — Scarsdale

    Congregation Agudat Achim — Schenectady

    Congregation Gates of Heaven — Schenectady

    Syracuse Law-- Jewish Law Students Association — Syracuse

    Congregation Kol Ami — White Plains

    Shaaray Tefila — White Plains

    Woodlands Community Temple — White Plains

    The Shul of New York — New York

    Congregation Temple Beth El — Rochester

    Stephen Wise Free Synagogue — New York

    Temple Avodah — Oceanside

    The Reform Temple of Forest Hills — Forest Hills

    Congregation Beth Elohim — Brooklyn

    Malkhut — Jackson Heights

    The Grad Network at Columbia/Barnard Hillel — New York

    Vassar Temple — Poughkeepsie

    Congregation Sons of Israel — Briarcliff Manor

    Sid Jacobson JCC — Greenvale

    Temple Beth Shalom — Florida

    Park Slope Jewish Center — Brooklyn

    Schusterman Philanthropies — New York

    Women of SSTTE — Ossining

    Temple Beth Israel — Port Washington

    Reform Temple of Putnam Valley — Putnam Valley

    Kolot Chayeinu — Brooklyn

    Repair the World - New York — Brooklyn

    NCJW South Shore — Rockville Centre

  • Temple Beth El — Charlotte

    Temple Kol Tikvah — Davidson

    Jewish Life at Duke — Durham

    Beth Meyer Synagogue — Raleigh

    Temple Beth Or — Raleigh

    Congregation Emanuel — Statesville

    Kehillah Synagogue — Chapel Hill

    Oranim NC — Carrboro

    Temple of Israel — Wilmington

  • Ohio State University Extension — Cleveland

    Kehilat Sukkat Shalom — Columbus

    Ohio State University Hillel — Columbus

    Hillel419 — Toledo

    Temple Shomer Emunim — Sylvania

    Congregation Tifereth Israel — Columbus

    Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple — Beachwood

    Temple Emanu El — Chagrin Falls

  • LAASOK — Thornhill

  • Kol Shalom of Portland — Portland

    Neurodivergentrabbi.com — Portland

    Tivnu: Building Justice — Portland

    Congregation Shir Tikvah — Portland

    Congregation Beth Israel — Portland

  • Congregation Kol Ami — Elkins Park

    Or Hadash: a Reconstructionist Congregation — Fort Washington

    Beth David Reform Congregation — Gladwyne

    Temple Ohev Sholom — Harrisburg

    Temple B'nai B'rith — Kingston

    Bucknell University Hillel — Lewisburg

    Shir Ami — Newtown

    Congregation Rodeph Shalom — Philadelphia

    Germantown Jewish Centre — Philadelphia

    Hillel at Drexel — Philadelphia

    Congregation Dor Hadash Social Action Committee — Pittsburgh

    NCJW Pittsburgh — Pittsburgh

    Main Line Reform Temple — Wynnewood

    Main Line Reform Temple Sisterhood — Wynnewood

    Muhlenberg College Hillel — Allentown

    Penn State Hillel — State College

    Congregation Kol Emet — Yardley

    Congregation Keneseth Israel — Allentown

    Kol Tzedek — Philadelphia

    Mishkan Shalom — Philadelphia

    Temple Hesed — Scranton

  • Temple Habonim — Barrington

    Temple Sinai — Cranston

    Temple Beth-El — Providence

    Temple Emanu-El — Providence

    URI Hillel — Kingston

  • Hadassah Charlotte Metro — Lancaster

  • Temple Israel — Memphis

    NCJW Nashville — Nashville

    The Temple - Ohabai Sholom — Nashville

    Vanderbilt Hillel — Nashville

  • Congregation Beth Israel — Austin

    Temple Emanu-El — Dallas

    Temple Shalom — Dallas

    Temple Shalom Sisterhood — Dallas

    Makom Shelanu Congregation — Ft Worth

    Beth Israel — Houston

    NCJW Greater Houston Section — Houston

    Traditions — Richardson

    Temple Beth-El — San Antonio

    Temple Beth Shalom — Austin

    Temple Emanuel — Beaumont

    Congregation Emanu El — Houston

    Congregation Shir Ami — Cedar Park

  • NCJW Utah — Salt Lake City

  • Temple Sinai — South Burlington

  • Beth El Hebrew Congregation — Alexandria

    Temple Rodef Shalom — Falls Church

    Temple Sinai — Newport News

    Northern Virginia Hebrew Congregation — Reston

    Congregation Etz Hayim — Arlington

    Agudas Achim Congregation — Alexandria

    Brody Jewish Center - Hillel at UVA — Charlottesville

    Hillel at Virginia Tech — Blacksburg

    Congregation Beth Israel — Charlottesville

    Temple Beth-El — Richmond

    Congregation Adat Reyim — Springfield

  • Temple B'nai Torah — Bellevue

    Kol Ami — Kirkland

    Congregation Kol Ami — Olympia

    Temple Beth Hatfiloh — Olympia

    Kadima — Seattle

    Temple Beth Am — Seattle

    Temple De Hirsch Sinai — Seattle

    Congregation Beth Shalom — Seattle

  • Temple B’nai Israel — Charleston

    Temple Israel — Charleston

  • Congregation Sinai — Fox Point

    Congregation Emanu-El B'ne Jeshurun — River Hills

    Hillel Milwaukee — Milwaukee

    NCJW Milwaukee — Milwaukee

    Congregation Shalom — Milwaukee

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