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Looking Forward
Why I’m vibing with the pope’s first big statement
'Magnifica Humanitas' is Pope Leo's response to AI and a testament to humanity
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‘I didn’t want to let go of her; I loved her to death’
In Massachusetts, mourners gathered to say a final farewell to trauma therapist Lisa Fliegel
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Books For the Jews of Venice, an uneasy history of scapegoating and grudging tolerance
In 'The First Ghetto," historian Alexander Lee tries to move beyond the Shylock stereotype, but perhaps not far enough beyond
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Books Reading a Pakistani author’s 30-year-old novel helped me understand my parents’ views on intermarriage
In Bapsi Sidhwa's 'An American Brat,' the distance between New York Jews and Lahore's Parsi community is smaller than you'd think
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Film & TV Woody Allen’s biggest fans were easy marks for a fake monologue about antisemitism
There were obvious signs that the director’s viral thoughts on contemporary Jew hatred weren't written by the man himself
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Garry Trudeau was a prep school kid, but he identified with the Jewish outsider in ‘Doonesbury’
Trudeau had more in common with 'Megaphone Mark' Slackmeyer than you might think
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At the edge of America, six Jewish graves endure
Long before Alaska had synagogues or an organized Jewish community, a small cemetery in Fairbanks preserved traces of frontier Jewish life one burial at a time
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Art This Jewish artist hadn’t painted in more than 5 decades. Then came Oct. 7.
Sid Klein wants to combat antisemitism, not with words or weapons but with his art
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Looking Forward The bizarre antisemitic book that taught me to better understand Judaism
Hector Bolitho's 'Twelve Jews,' published in 1934, tried to defend Jews — in one of the strangest ways possible
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Music For Bob Dylan’s 85th birthday, an 85-minute playlist
A journey through Dylan's voluminous discography, highlighting songs that are as idiosyncratic and iconoclastic as the man himself
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Despite what (Ashkenazi) tradition says, not everyone eats dairy on Shavuot
From beer to berbere-spiced bread, culinary traditions from across the diaspora harken back to ancient foodways.
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