Andrew Esensten
By Andrew Esensten
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Fast Forward A Jewish museum exhibit features the Palestinian flag. Some visitors wonder if it belongs.
An exhibit at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco is stirring debate about the role of Jewish museums and the tightropes they walk in raising 'challenging questions'
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Fast Forward ‘How are you supposed to enjoy music by somebody that hates you?’: Jewish fans press pause on Ye’s songs
For many Jews, it's become impossible to separate the art from the artist
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Fast Forward Elana Dykewomon, influential author whose characters were Jewish lesbians like her, dies at 72
“Beyond the Pale,” Dykewomon’s award-winning 1997 novel, told the story of Russian Jewish emigres to the Lower East Side
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Fast Forward Why do the Utah Jazz, in the Mormon capital, play ‘Hava Nagila’ after wins?
“It’s a bit different, I’ll say that much,” said Rabbi Samuel Spector, who leads Utah’s largest synagogue.
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News Dungeons & Dragons has united a diverse group of rabbis. But their commitment to social justice has faced a challenge.
(JTA) — The adventurers arrived at Morgur’s Mound, an archaeological site ringed with dragon bones. There they stumbled upon some treasure: a fire giant’s gold-plated tooth. They grabbed the tooth and tried to leave the site, but suddenly the ground began to shake. “Four animated thunder beast skeletons erupt from the mound and attack you,”…
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Opinion Don’t Conflate The Jersey City Murderers With All Black Hebrew Israelites
“Today’s murder was actually from a fringe African American terrorist group.” “I’ve yet to encounter a Black Hebrew Israelite who wasn’t an anti-Semite.” “The Israelite group is nuts.” These were some of the comments that popped up on my social media feeds last week following initial reports that the suspects who murdered a police officer…
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News Once Reviled, Black Hebrews Now Fêted
Elyahkeem Ben Yehuda could have become another statistic, growing up poor, black and fatherless on the west side of Chicago during the 1950s. But he never had a run-in with the law, nor did he see the inside of a jail cell, until he moved to Israel to join the African Hebrew Israelite community. “I…
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