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Culture
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Shunned by the right, targeted by the left, Eva Illouz confronts antisemitism masquerading as academic freedom
A Dutch school has apologized for disinviting the renowned scholar, but the stench of the controversy remains
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Books The Nazis sent them to Hawaii to spy for the Japanese
in 'Family of Spies,' Christine Kuehn confronts a past that is stranger and more sinister than fiction
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Can this LGBTQ+ Jewish organization navigate these turbulent times?
Keshet is experiencing a CEO transition and external pressures. It hopes its latest project, Shivyon, eases them
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I attended a world record-breaking Shabbat dinner. You won’t believe how much we ate.
At ‘The Big Shabbat,’ the food just kept coming
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Books With stories from Jews across the globe, this graphic anthology wants to expand how we see Jewishness
‘Hyphen: Jewish Stories In Our Own Word’ features twelve stories of Jews with different ethnic, racial, and gender identities.
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RFK Jr.’s poems to Olivia Nuzzi are peak cringe — so were King Solomon’s
In biblical times and, apparently, in our current era, erotica is in the eye of the beholder
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Film & TV The ‘Wicked’ Munchkins seem pretty Jewish this time around
The musical sequel recalls Nuremberg Laws in a scene added for the film
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How Black music brought me closer to Judaism
In those days in suburban Minneapolis, Jewish felt dorky; Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield and John Lee Hooker felt cool
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How a wedding in Oklahoma taught a group of police officers and SWAT team members to care about Judaism and Israel
Before my daughter's marriage, many attendees had never met a Jew
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Film & TV For ill and for good, this ‘Wicked’ song has become ubiquitous
Sung at graduations, funerals and retirement parties, Stephen Schwartz's 'For Good' is now the 'Hallelujah' of showtunes
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A shocking true story of Mexico’s Jewish community comes to Netflix
In 'No One Saw Us Leave,' the story of a kidnapping rests on the internal dynamics of a tight-knit Jewish community
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Culture A shocking true story of Mexico’s Jewish community comes to Netflix
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Letters Jewish leaders must work with educators to battle antisemitism — not demonize us
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Opinion More than 25% of Israelis want to leave the country. How did we get here?
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