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Starting next fall, the Berlin-based press will launch a U.S. copublishing program with New Vessel, Steerforth, and Deep Vellum with a focus on fiction and nonfiction translated from Hebrew, as well ...
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Hanukkah is Judaism’s “festival of lights.” On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews gather with family and friends to light one ...
Rabbi Shea Kaltmann said food and sports are two great ways to unite people regardless of religion or background.