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Sima is the attempted adoption of a poor Jewish girl who has been orphaned by a pogrom in 1905 Ukraine. A wealthy couple, Yakov and Regina Krasovitsky, visit an orphanage for children left parentless ...

A version of this column first appeared in the Reno Gazette Journal on Aug. 31, 2008. Political activist Emma Goldman, labeled by FBI director J. Edgar Hoover in 1919 as "one of the most dangerous ...