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?That Jewish News Show: Can Jewish and Christian billboards convert non-believers?

Laura and Benyamin discuss highway billboards, the Pittsburgh trial, the debt ceiling compromise, and packages of cocaine adorned with swastikas and other Nazi insignia

That Jewish News Show

Can Jewish and Christian billboards convert non-believers?
June 1, 2023

On the June 1, 2023 episode of That Jewish News Show, Laura E. Adkins and Benyamin Cohen of the Forward discuss the Pittsburgh trial, the debt ceiling compromise, and packages of cocaine adorned with swastikas and other Nazi insignia. They were joined by Mira Fox, a culture reporter at the Forward, to discuss her reporting on what’s behind the rise of Christian and Jewish highway billboards.

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