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A whites-only, no-Jews community says it's found a legal loophole. A Jewish lawmaker in Pennsylvania wants to close it.

JL;DR SUMMARY Pennsylvania State Rep. Ben Waxman, a Jewish lawmaker, has introduced legislation aimed at preventing communities like 'Return to the Land'—a whites-only, no-Jews segregated community in Arkansas—from establishing themselves in Pennsylvania. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Civil RightsPennsylvaniaRacial SegregationArkansasFair Housing ActJewish LawmakerReturn To The LandHousing DiscriminationBen WaxmanPrivate Club Exemption

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Arkansas, United States
"Return to the Land, a whites-only, no-Jews community in northern Arkansas, are illegal in his state."
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
"We have large immigrant communities in my district. We have people from all kinds of different places, and Im proud of that."
Israel
"Hes a member of the Conservative synagogue Beth Zion-Beth Israel, had an adult bar mitzvah on a Birthright trip to Israel, and keeps Shabbat."

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