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Opinion The Holocaust survivor writer who can help us through this ominous era
Arnošt Lustig experienced the worst of humanity — and maintained hope, anyway
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Looking Forward My favorite Christmas scene in literature — and why it makes me feel so Jewish
Louisa May Alcott's 'Eight Cousins' is set in a distinctly un-Jewish milieu, but I saw myself on the page all the same
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Fast Forward From golems to Horton to banana menorahs: This year’s Hanukkah kids’ books light up the imagination
This season’s children’s titles bring poetry, humor, Jewish wisdom — and even a kitten or two — to the holiday bookshelf
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Fast Forward National Book Award in nonfiction goes to Gaza polemic ‘One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This’
The book by Omar El Akkad stems from a viral tweet. A book about Jewish refugees won the young people’s literature award.
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Culture When Jews really did wage a ‘war on Christmas’
A new book recalls the “The Great Christmas Boycott of 1906,” when immigrants fought for the separation of church and state in public schools
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Books Esteemed by Oscar Wilde, England’s ‘greatest Jewess’ may finally be getting her due
A recent acquisition by Cambridge University will burnish the reputation of Victorian Jewish writer Amy Levy
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Books How the Yonkers-born son of Jewish immigrants became the king of American comedy
In what could be called 'Your Biography of Biographies,' David Margolick chronicles the unlikely stardom of Sid Caesar
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Books Why the story of Noah’s Ark seems timelier than ever
Charlotte McConaghy’s 'Wild Dark Shore' is only the latest riff on a biblical tale of climate change
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Fast Forward A whites-only, no-Jews community says it’s found a legal loophole. A Jewish lawmaker in Pennsylvania wants to close it.
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Film & TV So, what’s the deal with the honey scene in ‘Marty Supreme?’
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Opinion What if Donald Trump puts his name on the US Holocaust Memorial Museum?
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Israel News Somaliland already operates as a de facto state. So why is Israel’s recognition of it so controversial?
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