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Recently, in my Book Talk column that appears in the Wednesday edition of this newspaper, I posed a question asked by a fictional rabbi...

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Thanxgiving has passed, so I have permitted myself to start celebrating Xmas. One of the first things I learned way back in 1995 when I...