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‘If Yiddish isn’t safe at Brandeis, where is it safe?’
Brandeis planned to put its Yiddish program 'on hiatus' — until the Yiddish community spoke out.
- Aaron Lansky built a home for 1.5 million Yiddish books. Now he’s handing over the keys.
- How my grandparents met: a Yiddish-American romance
- That time Yiddishists met extraterrestrials a short while ago in a galaxy not far away
- Can a kinky new Yiddish musical resurrect a lost art — and one man who got spanked to death?
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Opinion This German word explains Trump’s authoritarian impulses — and Hitler’s rise to power
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Opinion I’m a Zionist Democrat. Mamdani has me asking if I must choose between my ideals and identity
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Opinion The scourge of Netanyahu’s self-interest has brought Zionism to its breaking point
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Opinion An app that warns of ICE raids — inspired by the memory of the Holocaust
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Holy Ground
This town lost most of its Jews. But not its Judaism.
A century-old Orthodox synagogue in a Rust Belt town lost most of its congregation, its rabbis, and almost everything else — but not its daily minyan
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