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      <description><![CDATA[Recent shows revive a debate that has echoed across Jewish and Christian tradition for millennia.]]></description>
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      <title>Egypt is in the Haggadah and the news this Passover season</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[“The pyramids represent people being forced to work for a central power, not being allowed to be important in and of themselves,” Yeshiva University professor Aaron Koller told JNS.]]></description>
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      <title>‘We need the joy’: Jews around the world gear up for Purim despite the pain</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[“V’nahafoch hu—turning things on their head—in today’s climate, means sanity,” says comedian Mendy Pellin.]]></description>
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      <title>Car-menorah parades set to light up cities worldwide</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Chanukah’s message of religious freedom and the power of youth resonate this year in particular.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The commandment to count 49 days between Passover and Shavuot has inspired generations of artists.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Young Jewish chefs prepare for the holiday in traditional ways, some with modern new twists, but minus all the stress.]]></description>
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