Jew
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publishing
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house founded in
New York City
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in 1963 by S. Goldman, and then taken over by his son Jack Goldman in response to the growing demand for books of scholarship in the English-speaking Jewish world. In addition to undertaking the now ubiquitous Judaica Press ''Mikraoth Gedoloth Nach'' ( Prophets and Writings of the
Talmud
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Aramaic
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Chabad.org
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History
In 1988, Yosef Yitzchak Kazen, a Chabad rabbi, began creating a Chabad-Lubavitch prese ...