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														<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/when-our-woman-in-havana-asked-fidel-castro-to-the-synagogue-hanukkah-party/"><img width="400" height="250" src="https://static.timesofisrael.com/www/uploads/2018/02/adela-e1518524369667-400x250.jpg" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="Adela Dworin with Fidel Castro in Havana, in August 2010. Journalist Jeffrey Goldberg is at right. (Cubadebate state media)" title="Adela Dworin with Fidel Castro in Havana, in August 2010. Journalist Jeffrey Goldberg is at right. (Cubadebate state media)" /></a>
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								<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/when-our-woman-in-havana-asked-fidel-castro-to-the-synagogue-hanukkah-party/">Adela Dworin doesn't have to live in Cuba. Her friends left for Miami long ago. So why does she stay, running and schnorring for the Jewish community? Here's her story, and Cuba's</a>
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								<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/theres-no-missing-trumps-merry-christmas-message/">After years complaining about a diminished focus on the festival, US president has for weeks been sprinkling his public remarks with Christmas tidings
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								Corsica just had its first public Hanukkah celebration, local rabbi says							</a>
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								<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/three-public-menorahs-vandalized-near-atlantic-city/">Local police treating incidents as hate crimes; all candelabra repaired in time to light them over Hanukkah</a>
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