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The White House denies that classified information was shared when The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg was added to a group ...

Matzah was once a forbidden food in the Soviet Union. To commemorate Passover, Olga Alterman's grandparents would smuggle matzah in a pillowcase to share among Jewish friends and families. Today, ...