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jubu
 n.— «Kamenetz wanted to learn what it was about Buddhism that lured many Jews to embrace the tenets of the Buddha and become “JUBUs.”» —“A Dharma Zionist?” by Noachman Spiegel Jerusalem Post Feb. 10, 1995. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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