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Fast Forward Federal judge temporarily blocks Louisiana’s law requiring classrooms to display Ten Commandments
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Yiddish איז דער דראַמאַטורג אַבֿרהם גאָלדפֿאַדן געװען אַ ציוניסט?Was playwright Avrom Goldfaden a Zionist?
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