Aviya Kushner is the Forward’s language columnist and the author of Wolf Lamb Bomb and The Grammar of God.
Aviya Kushner
By Aviya Kushner
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Culture Why ‘Awkward’ — or ‘Umgelumpert’ — is the word of the day
Journalists have settled on a word to describe the Jan. 6 election certification, but is it the right one?
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Books This devastating story of a hidden child during WWII will change how you think about France and the Holocaust
In 'Adieu,' Alfred Lakritz tells the powerful story of his own survival
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Opinion Why ‘Israel’ was the 2024 word of the year
No term shaped public discourse this past year quite like the name of the Jewish state
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Opinion Ta-Nehisi Coates, JD Vance and the casualties and causalities of fact-checking
When the burden of fact-checking falls upon readers, not authors or editors, accuracy and truth are the victims
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Culture Should we call the violence against Israeli soccer fans a ‘pogrom?’
There are disturbing parallels but also key differences between recent and historic acts of violent antisemitism
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Politics 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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