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The former Kutz Camp will be a set for Ben Platt’s new movie, ‘Theater Camp’
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Brazilian Jewish school takes in hospital patients escaping a fire
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State Supreme Court sides with mother in dispute over son’s yeshiva education
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Buffalo Republican: Hitler is ‘the kind of leader we need today’
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