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By Clifford Kulwin When I disembarked in Madrid on Sept. 2, I was ready to roll up my sleeves. Congregations there and in Barcelona had invited me to spend the Jewish High Holy Day season with them. I knew these communities, but of course, I hadn’t been there since before the onset of the pandemic. Happily, it proved a fun, gratifying and even a moving experience. There were some iffy linguistic moments but my Spanish prevailed. My rabbinic work kept me busy. But from the moment I stepped off the plane, the country’s response to COVID-19 was constantly on my mind. The difference from what I ha…