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Welch's for Pesah? " Welch's Teams With Manischewitz in Battle Over Kosher Grape Juice " (NPR, 10/10/17)

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Abusch-Magder's reflection on the holiness associated with--even implicit within--baking hallah has me thinking. If food is rendered kos...
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"The Jews who have arrived would nearly all like to remain here, but learning that they (with their customary usury and deceitful tradi...
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I'm not entirely sure what you're asking here, Daniel, but this is very interesting. I find it really interesting to think of Hoffman as the advisor to Fiddler, or to think about the role played by the rabbinic consultant to Transparent in how to make the female rabbinic character more real. I think it relates to a reality of American Judaism that Jewish "culture" (broadly defined) and Jews generally are a far more pervasive a part of American culture than Judaism as a religion. Vast components of Americans can identify things as "Jewish" (aka Fiddler) without knowing what gives them Jewish religious content.
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