As the commentators in a recent American updating of the traditional Passover Haggadah point out, people who identify as Jews have a much easier time these days thinking of themselves as choosers than as chosen.
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Sophia Rosenfeld
September 26,
Literary Hub,
26 Sep. 2025
The supply chain involves numerous players from farmers to pickers, brokers, transporters, exporters and market traders all moving the leaves daily, making the plant one of Kenya’s more significant horticultural products.
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Joseph Maina,
semafor.com,
27 Mar. 2026
Student groups expressed outrage because, at the time, a nationwide Taco Bell boycott was underway to pressure the restaurant to improve the wages and working conditions of its tomato pickers.
In October, the Justice Department filed criminal charges against James that have since been thrown out successive times by federal judges.
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Sarah D. Wire,
USA Today,
29 Mar. 2026
The foundation’s judges and awards subcommittee members – the latter a volunteer group of industry professionals, academics, writers and reviewers that changes every year – also search on their own.
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Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
29 Mar. 2026
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