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Our Mission: <\/strong><\/span>Heeding Moses Maimonides\u2019 call to engage in the pursuit of truth without prejudice, the Queens College Center for Jewish Studies seeks to be an open forum, unfettered by religious or political partisanship, for sustained and intellectually honest discussion of all aspects of Jewish history and culture. 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