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‘My teenager’s going to boarding school. I’m panicked she’ll face antisemitism’
Bintel says it’s good to be there for your kid, but Mom may need some support too
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Grok said Hebrew translation was disabled on X — but it’s not
Why did the social media platform's built-in AI bot hallucinate something so easy to disprove?
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Film & TV In ‘31 Candles,’ a manchild becomes bar mitzvah to court his crush
The rom-com is a messy meditation on American Jewry
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Books The Nazis would have embraced these elite Germans — nevertheless, they resisted
Jonathan Freedland's latest explores why a small group of aristocrats, army officers, diplomats and teachers joined a 'Traitors Circle'
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The world’s oldest known medieval Judaica relic is now its most valuable, too
The 12th-century Kiddush cup, which sheds light on the little-known Jewish community of eastern Khorasan, went for $4 million
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Books In Israel, she’s a national heroine — Americans are starting to understand why
Douglas Century's riveting 'Crash of the Heavens' chronicles the courage of Hannah Senesh
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Hey, Irving — why are there so many Jews named Irving?
A mystery of Jewish nomenclature finally solved — in honor of all the Miltons, Seymours, Sidneys and Irvings out there
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Art How Mussolini’s Jewish lover changed Fascist art and design
Margherita Sarfatti, known as 'the uncrowned Queen of Italy,' had a passion for Fascism and Futurism
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In the most talked-about Epstein File exchange, a lesson in Yiddish
When speaking of Donald Trump’s travails, Epstein invoked ‘tsuris’
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When Jews really did wage a ‘war on Christmas’
A new book recalls the “The Great Christmas Boycott of 1906,” when immigrants fought for the separation of church and state in public schools
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This Jesus horror movie could have used more heresy
Critics worried 'The Carpenter's Son' would be blasphemous but it hews to orthodox interpretations
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