Beth Bosworth
By Beth Bosworth
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News In the Wilderness of Ink
Certain scholars believe that the Redactor added a single sentence to this week’s Torah portion. What are they doing, Uncle? It’s another census, chickpea. Why? You ask a lot of questions, Phinehas. Will you give a half-shekel, too? Will they count you, too, this time? Has someone been teasing you again? No. Yes. No, Uncle….
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News A Booth of One’s Own
For Sukkot: Leviticus 22:26-23:44; Numbers 29:12-16. The haftarah: Zechariah 14:1-21. ——- The sukkah, ordered over the Internet and erected with some bickering, had collapsed once already. “Flanders,” said his sister, Ruth. “Will you come out here, please? Careful, Rolph. And Nadine, please don’t play with your dairy.” Flanders got up, strolled to the window and…
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