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Red Sox turn from Israelites to Israelis - '...Their long years (86 to be exact) in World Series exile - decades filled with yearning, struggling, anxiety and, most importantly, keeping the faith - had established the underdog Red Sox as the Jews of baseball...'
And since I support both ...