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The root “mishn” means many things depending on its prefix, as in the phrase, “butt out!”

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What does ‘The Curse’ finale mean? We asked ‘Moses’ to find out

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Opinion

The impeachment of Alejandro Mayorkas is a high-tech lynching of an American Jew

By Rob Eshman

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