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Items with the category:

Yom Kippur

Cover of In Sickness and in Health / Yom Kippur in a Gym
Fic­tion
In Sick­ness and in Health / Yom Kip­pur in a Gym
Nora Gold
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Chil­dren’s
Big Bad Wolf’s Yom Kippur
David Sherrin; Martín Morón, illus. 
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Non­fic­tion
An Amer­i­can Indi­an Guide to the Day of Atonement
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Rosh Hashana, Yom Kip­pur, and a Bit of Borscht

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