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Jackie Hajdenberg, JTA

International

Hefty price tag for new academic Mishnah

Oxford University Press set the price of a three-volume set of the Mishnah, out in August, at $645 — a steep, though not unheard-of cost for an academic text, and among the most expensive of its own offerings.
National

The great kosher chicken shortage

The reports are coming fast and furious from the Costcos, butcheries and grocery stores of America: Kosher chicken is hard to come by.
Today's Life

The Bat Mitzvah — 100 years after the first one

Temple Emanuel is one of more than 100 synagogues honoring the milestone in expanding roles for women in synagogue: the 1922 Bat Mitzvah of Judith Kaplan Eisenstein, the first-ever for an American girl.
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