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Letters to the Editor: Keep Buying Jewish Books

JL;DR SUMMARY Readers of Hadassah Magazine provide a variety of responses to the July/August 2025 issue, highlighting the importance of continuing to buy and engage with Jewish literature. 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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Jewish HistoryArab Israeli ConflictBuenos AiresCancel CultureHenrietta SzoldHadassah MagazineLeah LaxJewish TraffickingFemale Winemakers

Places mentioned

Buenos Aires, Argentina
"While focusing on the dirty war in Buenos Aires, it provides a great amount of detail on Jewish prostitution in that city and the divide between pure and impure Jews."
Poltava, Poltavshchyna, Ukraine
"Similar to Jennifer Wolf Kams quest, I tried for years to track Raquel Boyarsky from Poltava, Ukraine, to Buenos Aires in the same era and finally gave up."
Durham, North Carolina, United States
"Judith Ruderman Durham, N.C."
Amador City, California, United States
"Hope Luxemberg Amador City, Calif."
Meir Shfeyah, Haifa District, Israel
"I wish the article Women With Vintage Appeal in the July/August issue, about female winemakers in Israel, had included Ruthie Ben Israel."
Lake Worth, Florida, United States
"Dorothy Steinmetz Lake Worth, Fla."
Hebron, Palestinian Territories
"Schwartz points out that both the 1929 Hebron massacre and the accompanying attacks in Jerusalem and Safed were triggered by false charges from Arab leaders that Jews were plotting to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque and replace it with a third temple."
Jerusalem, Israel
"Schwartz points out that both the 1929 Hebron massacre and the accompanying attacks in Jerusalem and Safed were triggered by false charges from Arab leaders that Jews were plotting to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque and replace it with a third temple."
Safed, Northern District, Israel
"Schwartz points out that both the 1929 Hebron massacre and the accompanying attacks in Jerusalem and Safed were triggered by false charges from Arab leaders that Jews were plotting to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque and replace it with a third temple."
Corvallis, Oregon, United States
"Rachel Peck Corvallis, Ore."

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