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For Elana Stein Hain, practices like the eruv and the selling of chametz can create a new sort of religious consciousness
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Writer and performer Zara Phillips, author of 'Somebody's Daughter,' has turned her question into art
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Can we separate Woody Allen the artist from the man born Allan Stewart Konigsberg?
Patrick McGilligan's doorstopper of a biography addresses Allen's professional achievements and also his personal deficits
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The double life of Abraham, from freethinker to pure believer
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In the Italian city where James Joyce wrote ‘Ulysses’ a Jewish poet’s bookstore rises back to life
In 1919, Umberto Saba opened an antiquarian bookstore; a century later, the people of Trieste saved it
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Author John Irving’s new novel, ‘Queen Esther,’ deals with Israel and antisemitism
The novel concludes in Jerusalem in 1981, the year Irving first visited Israel
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92 years ago today, Hitler took power. This historian wants us to see the lessons we’ve ignored from his rise
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Young adult novel about women vampires wins a top prize for Jewish children’s books
“Night Owls” nabs a gold medal at the annual Sydney Taylor awards
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What we write about when we write about Anne Frank
In the latest entry in the 'Jewish Lives' series, Ruth Franklin explores the 'Many Lives' of the most famous witness to the Holocaust
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Lee Yaron’s account of Oct. 7 attacks named Jewish book of the year
’10/7: 100 Human Stories,’ was among a number of books on Israel honored by the 74th National Jewish Book Awards
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Jules Feiffer, a ‘smartass’ Jew whose work spanned comics and cinema, dies at 95
The Pulitzer winner was working on a new book, and just moved upstate
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