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Culture
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Books
Elon Musk doubted biblical miracles but loves Mel Brooks
Walter Isaacson's doorstopper biography reveals a skeptical Musk who likes Jewish humor
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Film & TV For ‘Rabbi On The Block,’ the street is her pulpit
A second documentary follows antiviolence activist Tamar Manasseh
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Books A Jewish writer confronts the other 9/11, and urges us to never forget it
Ariel Dorfman's 'Suicide Museum' investigates the day in 1973 when Chilean president Salvador Allende died during a bloody coup
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How I stumbled upon thousands of Holocaust-era letters and traced the stories behind them
The letters were hidden in plain sight at Yad Vashem. Most of their writers’ families had never seen them. Until now.
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This editor helped thousands of Holocaust survivors. But he rarely talked about it.
Isaac Metzker was the driving force behind the Forward's Seeking Relatives and Bintel Brief columns
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How one newspaper column saved lives, reunited families and changed the course of Jewish history
During the Holocaust and its aftermath, the Forward's Seeking Relatives helped thousands when no one else could
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What’s Jewish about the jam band Phish? Many things, according to a new book.
'This Is Your Song Too: Phish and Contemporary Jewish Identity' explores the the relationship between the band and Jewish fans through a series of essays
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Five books you need to prepare for the High Holidays
Rabbi Mark Asher Goodman shares his favorite books to get you ready for the High Holidays.
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Music Persian Jewish musician Galeet Dardashti duets with her famed Iranian grandfather in ‘Monajat’
With 'Monajat,' Dardashti re-imagines Selichot from the Persian tradition
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Holy cow! Can one heifer herald the Third Temple — and the end of the world as we know it?
A red heifer calf has been born in Israel, to the delight of controversial Third Temple advocacy groups
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Books A canceled JCC book talk shows Jews are entering a dangerous era of self-censorship
The Jewish author was told by the Mandel JCC in Florida that the political climate was 'complicated'
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Culture Mamdani’s first statement on antisemitism as mayor-elect got some weird pushback
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Opinion I spoke out against Mamdani. Then he won. Here’s how we walk forward together.
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Opinion Why a concert hall should be the last place for a protest — particularly an antisemitic one like this
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Opinion The fundamental miscalculation behind the GOP’s antisemitism crisis
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News Indiana University removed its Jewish studies director. His replacement has ignited a firestorm over Israel.
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Fast Forward Groundbreaking analysis of Hitler’s DNA shows no Jewish ancestry — but finds a genetic disorder
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Opinion A single arrest has thrown the battle for Israel’s soul into sharp relief
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Culture A young Muslim woman moved in with a 96-year-old Jewish actress – and it was bashert
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