- Joel's Uncle Manny dies and the people of Cicely join forces to locate ten other Jews for his kaddish.
- Joel arrives at his office to find a long line has accumulated there. Figuring it is part of the flu epidemic he has been helping with in Yellow Knife, he takes a deep breath. But the line is not made up of patients. They are hopefuls for Marilyn's dance partner in the upcoming Cajun two-step contest. The phone rings, and Joel learns that his Uncle Manny has died. He feels that it is important for him to say a kaddish prayer for this favorite uncle but that requires a minyan, ten adult male Jews. Where is he to find that many Jews near Cicely? Maurice is sympathetic to his needs. He organizes the community into searching various sectors of Alaska to locate the requisite number. Maggie offers to help in any way she can. Ed turns up one, Ruth-Anne another, and a converted cousin of Marilyn will kayak down. At the same time, two Miller brothers have shown up from West Virginia. It seems there has been a long-term feud between the Millers and the Stevens. Chris is eager to meet them in a fight, even offering the visiting Bernard a chance to join him because he is a half-brother. Bernard, who has never been in a fight, is less than enthusiastic about this. Marilyn decides that the way Holling moves makes him the perfect dance partner. She begins training him, keeping him out very late. The more Holling gets into the dancing, the less Shelly likes it. She feels that Marilyn has co-opted time with her husband. The time for the Miller-Stevens fight arrives. Bernard begins talking about how a one side losing the fight will end this long feud tradition. The two Miller boys and Chris agree that they would rather continue their squabble. Nothing happens. Marilyn fires Holling because his "stillness" is not good. She rehires her former partner. With only two more Jews needed, Joel starts feeling that a kaddish among a group of strangers is less meaningful than before his circle of friends in Cicely. He dismisses the Jews that Maurice's search has assembled and presents the kaddish prayer to his friends in the church.—Garon Smith
- The Miller boys - all two of them - arrive in Alaska in search of Chris. Seeing as how he managed to dodge extradition back to West Virginia, which they had something of a hand in, they arrive to settle the Miller/Stevens feud. Bernard's shocked but Chris announces himself pumped by the thought of warm blood on his fist. But there's bad news at the surgery when Joel receives a phone call telling him that his uncle Manny has passed away. Not wanting Joel to mourn alone, Maurice says that he needs nine more Jews to pray for Manny and so dispatches the residents of Cicely in search of Jews, each one assigned an area of land and the task of finding 0.67 Jews in each sector to make up the ten.
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