By JTA
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with President Shimon Peres to request an extension in forming a government.
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Two authors walk into a bar … and debate Judaism, Brooklyn, and their own paranoia. For Ben Schrank and Joshua Furst, there’s no better time and place to chat.
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By Susan Comninos
In his dark, literate and startlingly compassionate memoir, James Lasdun explores being harassed by a former student whose writing he championed.
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By Benjamin Ivry
Jewish lyricist E. Y. Harburg created both the tragic ‘Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?’ and the idealistic ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow.’
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By Robert Zaretsky
French Jewry will always have Paris. But they face an uncertain future in provincial cities that have made crucial contributions to history.
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By Tony Michels
First, the left fought against Zionism, then backed it. Robert Wistrich explains the complex relationship in comprehensive detail.
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By Ezra Glinter
Far from the invincible heroes of Hollywood or the fixers of popular imagination, noir protagonists are usually pathetic, marginal figures.
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By Hilene Flanzbaum
Paul Goodman’s reissued 1960s classic ‘Growing Up Absurd’ may make you nostalgic for a past you never lived. The author’s uncomplicated idealism is complicated by his attitude to women.
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By Kristin Kloberdanz
Michael Chabon’s home in Berkeley is an oasis amidst the university town clatter and clutter. It reminds the author of his idyllic melting pot hometown in suburban Maryland.
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By Ranen Omer-Sherman
His strident politics notwithstanding, Mark Helprin’s magically descriptive powers have rendered up some of the most genuinely adventurous writing of our time.
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What We Can Learn From Mel Brooks About Racism
Life After the Holocaust, at 90 and Beyond
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