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…Cover Story SUDAN'S CRY from page 24 U-M HiHers David Post, right, poses with an African villager. of the crisis and to find ways to end the suffering. They joined the New York-based Save Darfur Coalition, an alliance of more than 100 diverse faith-based, humanitarian and human rights organizations that identified Dec. 10-12 as the Weekend of Conscience on Darfur. "The Darfur situation is a human issue, not particularly Jewish, but we're am...…
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…On The Bookshelf The Southern Experience In his new novel, "Chicken Dreaming Corn," Roy Hoffman tears down stereotypes with a homegrown brand of Southern Jewish lit. BRADFORD R. PILCHER Special to the Jewish News T : / 12/31 2004 42 Wiesel told him "that a good writer can sit and watch the people on a street corner and find, in humanity passing by, stories to tell." It was in that humanity, passing by, that Hoffman found his voice. As ...…
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