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  • A large menorah stands above the entrance to the Agri Star meat-processing plant in the eastern Iowa town of Postville.
    A large menorah stands above the entrance to the Agri Star meat-processing plant in the eastern Iowa town of Postville.
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    Slaughterhouse Shrive

    In this week’s ‘Daf Yomi,’ Talmudic rabbis debate who is free to butcher animals piously according to Jewish ritual. Plus: the one transgression that is unforgivable under the Torah.

    byAdam Kirsch
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    The Other Torah

    A new English translation of the Samaritan Torah offers scholars a different version of the sacred text

    byChavie Lieber
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    Sundown: Ayalon and Fayyad Don’t Play Nice

    Plus Peres and Barak paint the town red, and more

    byMarc Tracy
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    Today on Tablet

    The still-Samaritans, cheesecake, and more

    byUnknown Author
  • The Samaritan Passover on Mt. Gerizim. At Abraham's altar, approximately 1900 to 1920
    The Samaritan Passover on Mt. Gerizim. At Abraham's altar, approximately 1900 to 1920
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    Good Samaritans

    Israel’s smallest religious minority offers Jews a glimpse of what might have been

    byBenjamin Balint
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    Sundown: Rahm in Jerusalem

    Plus Woody speaks up for justice, and more in the news

    byMarc Tracy
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    Sundown: In Praise of Freaks

    Shyne is free, etrogs are inedible, and Roth wins again

    byHadara Graubart
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