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Sherlock’s Jewish Girlfriend

July 16, 2012
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“To Sherlock Holmes she was always the woman.” This is the opening line of “A Scandal in Bohemia,” one of the most popular and enduring stories about the world’s favorite detective. “She” refers to Irene Adler, the closest thing to a love interest that Holmes ever had–in Arthur Conan Doyle’s original stories, at any rate (we won’t think…

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