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Lucky Gold on the Town that Taught Him to Believe in Angels
Suzy Weiss
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At Friday night Shabbat services held in a shoe store, country folk pressed their faces to the glass—astonished to see Jews in their midst, but glad they’d come.

Read Lucky Gold’s essay, “Remembering Where You Came From,” and Joe Nocera’s introduction to Ancient Wisdom, a new series from The Free Press.

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Suzy Weiss
Suzy Weiss is a co-founder and reporter for The Free Press and host of Second Thought. Before that, she worked as a features reporter at the New York Post. There, she covered the internet, culture, dating, dieting, technology, and Gen Z. Her work has also appeared in Tablet, the New York Daily News, The Wall Street Journal, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, among others.
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