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Jewish Literary Festival at the DCJCC

Remaining events in the 12th annual Jewish Literary Festival at the DCJCC include Jerry Muller discussing Capitalism and the Jews about the disproportionate success of Jews in capitalist economies, exploring the most plausible explanations for this striking phenomenon and examining the remarkable range of Jewish responses to capitalism, on Monday, Oct. 25, and a closing night program on Wednesday, Oct. 27, featuring Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, whose 36 Arguments for the Existence of God is a hilarious, heartbreaking and intellectually captivating novel exploring the rapture and torments of religious experience in all its variet. D.C. Jewish Community Center, 1529 16th St. NW. Call 202-777-3251 or visit washingtondcjcc.org/litfest.

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