News Quiz: Kanye West, the Coen Brothers and Chabad

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By Lenore Skenazy December 2, 2013

When you’ve got Kanye and the Coen Brothers, can the Klezmatics be far behind? Not in this week’s news quiz, they can’t. And neither can Jewish children’s books about chickens.

For real. It’s a trend.

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