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News Your turn: Readers share their stories of epic typos
Not one but two people had embarrassing stories of “public” being printed – very publicly – without the “l.” Another misspelled “Holocaust” throughout his master’s thesis. Many shared tales of auto-correct gone wrong, or tips on how to (try) to catch mistakes before hitting send. There were those who sent emails riddled with spelling errors…
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News 21 Jewish moments of 2021
Time can be a funny thing. “The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion,” Albert Einstein once said. That seems like a pretty good description of the year that was. The past twelve months have, at times, felt like so much more. America and Israel both got new leaders and…
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News Your turn: Readers share (strong) feelings about Christmas, Hanukkah and the so-called ‘holiday season’
In her latest “Looking Forward” column, our editor-in-chief, Jodi Rudoren, went on something of a rant about a new Old Navy commercial purporting to celebrate the “ALL-idays” but in fact redolent of the colors, symbols and sayings of Christmas. Rudoren acknowledged that she has always had a big Christmas chip on her shoulder, and said…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump: ‘I could run for prime minister of Israel’
(JTA) — Former President Donald Trump told a conservative Jewish radio host that Israel until recently “literally owned Congress,” a claim similar to those that have triggered accusations of antisemitism against other politicians. The comments came during Trump’s Oct. 29 interview with Seattle-based talk show host Ari Hoffman as Trump was reviewing his Middle East…
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Culture October 28: Is Anti-Zionism Antisemitic?
This conversation will take place on Thursday, October 28 at 7:30 p.m. ET / 4:30 p.m. PT. Register here. It’s a graph that seems almost impossible to calculate, an advanced mathematical problem that must include 5,000 years of history, centuries of bigotry, humiliations, oppression, expulsions, political manipulations and a single piece of land on which…
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Culture February 1-17: Black Jewish History/Black Jewish Futures Month
This series will take place online over four sessions in Februrary. Register here. We’re proud to partner with 92nd Street Y to present “Black Jewish History/Black Jewish Futures Month,” an opportunity to recognize and celebrate the lives of Black Jews in the United States. Throughout the month of February, Black Jewish leaders will lead online…
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Opinion Readers respond to Sally Rooney’s boycott of Israel
We received a slew of responses after publishing an Opinion article on Monday by Gitit Levy-Paz about the novelist Sally Rooney’s decision not to have her latest book translated into Hebrew by an Israeli publisher. Rooney, a celebrated Irish author who was nominated for the Man Booker Prize in 2018, said in a statement on…
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Culture February 7: Jonathan Greenblatt in conversation with Jodi Rudoren
This discussion will take place on Monday, February 7 at 7 p.m. ET./ 4 p.m. PT. Register here. As CEO of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Jonathan Greenblatt has made it his mission to demonstrate how antisemitism, racism, and other insidious forms of intolerance can destroy a society, taking root as quiet prejudices but mutating over…
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