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NEW YORK (JTA) — Walking into Marvin Goldman’s apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side is like entering a museum dedicated to El Al, Israel’s national airline. In one room, shelves and tables display scale models of El Al’s earliest aircraft,...

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