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Culture
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Gaza hospital explosion poses questions about how to report to readers who don’t read
Journalists rely on tricks of the trade like attributions to imply doubt, but are readers paying attention?
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Books Surviving the Holocaust, only to endure the brutality of life under Stalin
In 'Two Roads Home,' Daniel Finkelstein urges the reader to remember both Nazi and Soviet crimes against humanity
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Why so many people call the Oct. 7 massacre a ‘pogrom’ — and what they miss when they do so
Yosef Yerushalmi would have had a lot to say about our tendency to fit new horrors into old patterns
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A life of music and promise shattered by the Holocaust in an unforgettable film
'Winter Journey' is a compelling and original adaptation of Martin Goldsmith's 'The Inextinguishable Symphony'
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Books Magnificent permanent exhibit opens at Amherst’s Yiddish Book Center
Among the many displays are a 1918 Yiddish linotype press and a replica of the great Yiddish writer Y.L. Peretz’s study in Warsaw
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Art In painting the horrors of both Ukraine and Israel at war, an artist finds echoes of Picasso’s ‘Guernica’
Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi has been making art about the October 7th Hamas attacks and their aftermath
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What does it mean when people say Israel and Hamas are fighting a ‘holy war?’
Some Christians are interpreting the violence as the culmination of prophecies about the End Times
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In Galveston, Texas, a refuge for Jews escaping pogroms — and perhaps a lesson for today’s ‘migrant crisis’
For Jewish immigrants, Galveston was once 'the Ellis Island of the West'
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Books Conferences and cultural events with Palestinian ties are being canceled around the US and abroad
Even events unrelated to the Middle East are being scrapped if speakers are deemed anti-Israel
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‘I cry for both of us’: For Jerusalem Youth Chorus, a canceled tour and a shared Jewish-Palestinian grief
The Jerusalem Youth Chorus was founded in the hope of peace — but had to scrap plans for a post-COVID tour because of war
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Music How a cult Scottish-Jewish rock band finally hit the Top 10 more than four decades after they broke up
In 1974, Gentle Giant released the song 'Proclamation.' In 2023, Travis Scott sampled it for his song 'Hyaena.'
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