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This 118-year-old Jewish bakery in India is a hit on Christmas   A selection of some of the Nahoum & Sons pastries. MYSORE, India (JTA) - From the flashing outdoor lights that deck out Park Street, to the bustling pop-up Christmas market at the central rotunda of the sprawling New Market, Christmas has always been a celebratory affair in Kolkata.  While this year celebrations are toned down due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the damaging after-effects of Cyclone Amphan that hit the city in May, Isaac Nahoum, a Jewish baker who has seen business tumble from more than 300 custom...

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This 118-year-old Jewish bakery in India is a hit on Christmas Benjamin Allan Norman Nahoum at the shop in 1979. (Recalling Jewish Calcutta archive) Advertisement MYSORE, India (JTA) — From the flashing outdoor lights that deck out Park Street, to the bustling pop-up Christmas market at the central rotunda of the sprawling New Market, Christmas has always been a celebratory affair in Kolkata.  While this year celebrations are toned down due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the damaging after-effects of Cyclone Amphan that hit the city in May, Isaac Nahoum, a Jewish...

totally different kind of views of religion in the 1960's. politicians just did not do that during that time. >> with all the campaigns he ran, did he enjoy politics? hubert humphrey was the happy warrior. al smith, the happy warrior. was he a happy warrior? >> absolutely. he would not have been successful, i do not think. any good politician, i think, have to more than tolerate it. in his case, you would have to be a psychiatrist to figure out each politician, but i think he enjoyed the adulation of the crowd. it was a kind of love affair between him and many of his constituency. he...