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True Believers
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Jerusalem Post
10-23-1998
When Tanya Magram came to live in Kibbutz Hulata with her husband and infant daughter four years ago, she knew just enough Hebrew to ask, "Are there any Karaites in Israel?"
As a child in Melitopol, just north of the Crimean peninsula, she had heard her grandmother tell of Anan Ben- David, the eighth-century founder of the Karaite movement who had built a synagogue in the holy city of Jerusalem. He and his follow...
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