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The title of Far From Zion: In Search of a Global Jewish Community, the well-meaning but problematic new book by Charles London, has a double edge. On one level, London, a young American Jew who lives in New York, has written an entertaining travelogue about his quest for far-flung and unlikely Jewish communities. From Burma ...

Last Friday, the sun set on the year 5769, first in Siberia and Australia, then in China, India, and the Middle East; then 5770 hurtled westward through Africa and Europe and finally arrived in the Americas. In each of these locales, on Saturday morning, Jews praised God in mostly the same words, give or take ...