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The Besere Velt Times: Good News for October 2036

Lawrence Bush

October 5, 2016

Artwork by Shari Diamond

Besere Velt text by Lawrence Bush

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Lawrence Bush edited Jewish Currents from 2003 until 2018. He is the author of Bessie: A Novel of Love and Revolution and Waiting for God: The Spiritual Explorations of a Reluctant Atheist, among other books. His new volume of illustrated Torah commentaries, American Torah Toons 2, is scheduled for publication this year.

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