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The Kabil's Donkey

Story Stats

Rating: 4
Grade Level: 4, 5
Page count: 4
Categories: Hanukkah, Jewish

Author

Eric
Kimmel

Appeared in

The Spotted Pony: A Collection of Hanukkah Stories

Story Summary

In the town of Yemen, a minor official decides to stir up trouble between the Jews and the Muslims. He claims that all Jewish orphans must be raised Muslim, but when he arrives at the orphanage, the Rabbi claims that all the orphans fled and that these children were donkeys that learned so much that they looked like children.