Aviya Kushner is the Forward’s language columnist and the author of Wolf Lamb Bomb and The Grammar of God. Follow her on Twitter @AviyaKushner.
Aviya Kushner
By Aviya Kushner
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There are disturbing parallels but also key differences between recent and historic acts of violent antisemitism
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Culture Need help voting in Yiddish (or Urdu or Tagalog or Gujarati or Polish or Russian or Tamil or Hmong)?
Election Day is a time to marvel at the linguistic diversity of the American Electorate
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Culture Why Jews see pomegranates as symbols of both love and war
The pomegranate tree planted by Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff has conflicting meanings
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Opinion Hassan Nasrallah was not a ‘towering leader’ — he was a terrorist
Descriptions of the slain Hezbollah leader conveniently leave out the fact that he was responsible for the murders of thousands of civilians
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In an election year, a Yiddish word teaches us how to separate the competent from the incompetent
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Culture What Jews and Bill Clinton talk about when they talk about ‘class’
At the DNC, there's been a lot of talk about having 'class' and being part of the 'middle class' — let's not forget to talk about the poor
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Culture They’re celebrating the Olympics in Paris, but the war in the Middle East feels close at hand
Fear and anxiety seem like constants for Jews in the City of Light
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Culture How it feels to leave Israel when an attack is coming and every airline is canceling flights
On El Al out of Tel Aviv, some passengers aren't planning to get anywhere but out
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