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 Cotton, Catfish and Challah:
A Tale of A Traveling Rabbi in the South
by Jennie Rothenberg
It's early on a sunny Friday in January and the cotton fields of southeast Arkansas are a cold muddy brown. Rabbi Debra Kassoff's blue van streaks down Highway 65, two narrow lanes leading into the town of McGehee. The land here is flat, the arrow-straight highway running parallel to ever-present railroad tracks. Tractor dealerships, catfish eateries and rundown shacks blur by punctuated Baptist churches. Every few miles, a green sign announces another town with a population under 300...
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