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    Essay

    Find­ing the Torah in the Tarot

    Stav Appel
    October 13, 2025
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    A Jew­ish Detec­tive Vis­its Con­stan­tino­ple in the 1800s

    A.E. Goldin
    October 13, 2025
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    Vio­le­ta Stolpen
    October 13, 2025
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    Recov­er­ing Yid­dish Answers to the Endur­ing Ques­tion, ​“What Shall We Tell the Children?”

    Miri­am Udel
    October 13, 2025

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    A cel­e­bra­tion of 100 years of Jew­ish books

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