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We’d always been a “Navi family,” as I liked to call it, focused on learning independently   When my sister was in ninth grade, she got into trouble during Navi class. The teacher felt like the questions she raised bordered on chutzpah, and she called my father, a rav, to discuss the issue. My father listened,
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We’d always been a “Navi family,” as I liked to call it, focused on learning independently   When my sister was in ninth grade, she got into trouble during Navi class. The teacher felt like the questions she raised bordered on chutzpah, and she called my father, a rav, to discuss the issue. My father listened,
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