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Cabaret Nights: Tales of One Rabbi’s Short-Lived Pulpit in Paradise

By Jack Nusan Porter

For a month before and a month after the September 11 terrorist attacks, I was the southernmost rabbi in the continental United States or, as my brother liked to say, the “Key Vester Rebbe.”My memories of those days resurfaced recently when I read “Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret” (University of Chicago Press, 2003), by two UniversityRead More







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