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Turbulence with toddlers: The long trip home from China

  Choose your own adventure.          A. Climbing Mount Everest.          B. Running 26.2 miles.          C. Traveling for 30 straight hours to bring your toddler home from China. We’ve picked C—twice. And it wasn’t easy. As I’ve mentioned before, John is not a fan of flying. And we’re not great travelers. Add to that the difficulties that come

Movie Review: The Possession

NEW YORK – Catholic exorcists get some time off with “The Possession” (Lionsgate). Since this mostly gore-free chiller’s premise rests on Jewish tales of demonic indwelling by beings called dybbuks, it’s a Hasidic student, rather than a priest, who eventually gets summoned to the rescue. And file this one under “Only in America”: said scholar – Tzadok by name – is played by Hasidic rapper and reggae singer Matisyahu.

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