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Letter from the Editor .......... 15
17 Jewish Geography 23 The Kibbitz: IN THE BEGINNING
Adam Edelman An Olympic hopeful on the importance of sport—and why Jewish culture should care more about it by AVI FINEGOLD 28 On One Foot: AI Should you pose your questions about Judaism to a chatbot? by AVI FINEGOLD
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CULTURE KLATSCH
45 Eating Our Feelings: Kat Romanow Pane Toscano by COREY MINTZ 49 Bookish: It’s No Fairy Tale Can an anthology of century-old Jewish stories help us understand our own times? by PHOEBE MALTZ BOVY 58 Jewdar Forthcoming books, films, and other new releases of note
BAKING AND BREAKING BREAD WITH KAT ROMANOW
64 Comic One woman’s quest to discover her many ancestral homelands by MIRIAM LIBICKI ON THE COVER: As we worked on this issue of the magazine, we realized that the stories in it naturally coalesced around the theme of fitting in — a theme we tried to convey with playful curiosity in the cover illustration.
ILLUSTRATION BY MICHAEL AUSTIN
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