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Don’t pass the matzo ball soup just yet—Jewish Americans don’t say Passover is as important as other Jewish holidays. A plurality (43 percent) of American Jews said Yom Kippur, the “Day of Atonement,” is the most important Jewish holiday to them personally. This is according to PRRI’s 2012 Jewish Values Survey, which, among other questions, asked Americans who identify as Jewish what the most important Jewish holiday is to them personally. In a distant […]<\/p>\n
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