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My boyfriend made me into an AI bot. It’s really, really Jewish
Can ChatGPT be a Jewish woman?
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Before Google, before Wikipedia, this DIY almanac shaped a Jewish generation
Even if you've never heard of 'The Jewish Catalog,' which turns 50 this year, it probably changed your life.
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Film & TV Elie Wiesel reviewed ‘Oppenheimer’ — and it made him shudder
In 1969 the author of ‘Night’ was shaken by a play about the father of the atom bomb
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What do you do with a Jewish cemetery in a town without Jews?
Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, once had a thriving Jewish community. What happened when their dead were left in one woman’s care?
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Jonah Hill’s therapy-speak exposes the dark side of the Nice Jewish Boy
The drama surrounding Hill's ex-girlfriend reveals the way therapy-speak is dangerous
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Film & TV Alan Arkin and the three pillars of Judaism
Though not an observant Jew, the actor embodied more than a few Jewish values
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Is Barbie Jewish? The complex Jewish history of the doll, explained
One of the most anticipated blockbuster movies in recent years takes on the doll with a uniquely American Jewish story
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This massive collection of 11 million postage stamps represents every life lost in the Holocaust
The stamps, collected by children, are on display at the American Philatelic Society with letters from survivors and victims
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Books A Catholic photographer and Chicago’s cannabis king: How I tracked down the greatest bar mitzvah photo of all time
Two gawky teenagers shared a slow dance at a bar mitzvah in the 1990s. 30 years later, it took every Jew I knew to find them
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Fiction excerpt: The Baron of East Broadway, by Jerome Charyn
On the Lower East Side, Ab Cahan is once again the Pulitzer of Yiddish Land, the William Randolph Hearst of the Jewish ghetto
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Will Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads app be a decentralized utopia or just another antisemitic hell?
The Twitter competitor app is part of the fediverse, a decentralized type of social media that is becoming popuar
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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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Culture Did crypto-Jews invent the modern tarot deck?
In Case You Missed It
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Yiddish נײַע איבערזעצונג: דאָס לעבן און טויט פֿון אַ שטעטל בעת דער רוסישער בירגערקריגNew translation: The life and death of a shtetl during the Russian Civil Wars
אָן רחל פֿײַגנבערגס בוך פֿון 1926 וואָלט מען אפֿשר אַפֿילו נישט געוווּסט אַז דאָס שטעטל דובאָווע האָט אַ מאָל עקזיסטירט.
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Books Esteemed by Oscar Wilde, England’s ‘greatest Jewess’ may finally be getting her due
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Yiddish בײַ די פֿרומע קרײַזן אין אַמאָליקן טשערנאָוויץThe Orthodox community in pre-war Czernowitz
הרבֿ מאיר מאָסקאָוויץ, וואָס איז די וואָך ניפֿטר געוואָרן, איז געווען דער זון פֿונעם שאָצער רבין אין טשערנאָוויץ
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Film & TV The cheesy way to do teshuvah
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