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Every year in October people like Michael Weiss (see below) and a slew of other rabbinic apologists spin Yom Kippur's Kol Nidrei (also spelled "Nidre") absolution of vows into a "context"-based confutation of assertions that it allows Talmudists to cheat in business, politics and religion by permitt...

Think of how easy it might have been to understand Arianna Huffington's bloggy animus toward Tim Russert if there were a book out chronicling all the sordid details of their decade-and-a-half-long secret feud. (There is.) Every gossip-mongering gadabout should know the full backstory on every spat, ...