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Ryan Braun, MLB’s ‘Jewish MVP,’ named NL most valuable player*

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Brad A. Greenberg

November 22, 2011

I’ve written a lot about Ryan Braun. The Brewers slugger—who grew up in the San Fernando Valley and whose father is Jewish—is not yet the second coming of ” title=”played on Yom Kippur”>played on Yom Kippur during the playoffs this year; he’s just not the kind of Jew who wouldn’t. But, like Greenberg, he is a ” title=”MVP talks before”>MVP talks before (and the ” title=”named MVP of the National League”>named MVP of the National League today. And I don’t think anyone, certainly not the Dodgers’ Matt Kemp, was

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