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MythBusting: Jewish Urban Legends & Misunderstood Texts with Rabbi Uri Cohen - Session 17

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Here are the topics for Session Seventeen:

Urban Legend:

“If a child intermarries, the parents are supposed to sit shiva!”

Frauds, Fakes, Forgeries:

“Rabbi Mordechai Kaplan led an Orthodox congregation until he lost his faith!”

Street Torah:

“You can kasher a knife by sticking it in the ground!”

Factitious Fiction:

The Last of the Just: “Being a Jew is to suffer, and being a lamedvovnik is to be martyred!”

People Thought the Darndest Things!:

“The ten tribes still exist, but they’re beyond the Sambatyon River!”

Misunderstood Text:

“A man using an Orthodox prayerbook thanks…

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