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My friend doesn’t like the way I talk. And now she won’t talk to me about it
Bintel says: What some see as interrupting, others call being Jewish
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Music If they were ‘the only band that mattered,’ is he the only Jewish guitarist who matters?
The Clash and BAD's Mick Jones, now 68, is the son of a Welsh father and a Russian Jewish mother
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In one thuggish and vulgar phrase, a history of turmoil in Putin’s Russia
What was Aleksander Lukashenko talking about when he talked about 'whacking' Yevgeny Prigozhin?
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Some people think Mount Sinai is in Saudi Arabia. Does it matter?
Evangelical tourism is booming in Saudi Arabia, all to see where God maybe spoke to Moses
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How the world’s greatest lox slicer celebrates his 93rd birthday
For the Forward's connoisseur of smoked fish, the momentous occasion involves plenty of Chinese food and plenty of beer
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‘The teacher of teachers’: A pioneering Yiddishist leaves a profound legacy
Chava Lapin vigorously promoted Yiddish language and culture for half a century
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So you’re in an interfaith relationship. How should you navigate family disapproval?
The Forward talked to two multicultural couples and a therapist to get their advice for people in a similar boat
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Books How a master of understatement conjured up the horrors of the Shoah
Aharon Appelfeld's 'Poland, A Green Land' is a sort of fable set a generation after the fall of the Third Reich
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Why I decided to give my dog a ‘bark mitzvah’ — a report from Coco’s coming-of-age ceremony
The ritual reminds us of the joy animals bring to people's lives and the spiritual connection between man and beast
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Books Books Briefing: A mysterious postcard illuminates a French family’s Holocaust history
Plus doppelgänger stories, new Jewish romance and a reboot of a Yiddish classic in this month's books newsletter
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‘Dirty Dancing’ and the Yiddish Camelot it captured
An illustrated deep dive into the 1987 film that brought the Jewish Catskills to the masses
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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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