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RNS Opening Budget — Friday, March 26, 2021

NEWS STORY
RNS-Twitty-Passover: Michael Twitty’s kosher soul offers an updated story of liberation
(RNS) — Passover is Michael W. Twitty’s favorite Jewish holiday. A cook and James Beard Book Award-winning culinary historian, Twitty owns that the food is a big reason. But that’s not all. According to Twitty family lore, the holiday, on which Jews retell their exodus from slavery to freedom, also coincides with his enslaved ancestors’ freedom from bondage. By Yonat Shimron. 1,000 words. (category: a)

COMMENTARY
RNS-Salkin-Oped: The day Reform Judaism made history
(RNS) — In my opinion, the most important day in the history of Reform Judaism was Tuesday, March 23, 2021. That was when we learned Rabbi Gilad Kariv, president and CEO of the Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism, became the first Reform rabbi to be elected to Israel’s Knesset. By Jeffrey Salkin. 854 words. (category: k)

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