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What Hailey Bieber smoothies and instant matzo ball soup reveal about American Jewish taste
If the kosher deli is out, what's taking its place?
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Mamdani’s first statement on antisemitism as mayor-elect got some weird pushback
After someone spraypainted a swastika on a yeshiva, conspiracy theories abounded
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Film & TV On the trail of a priceless dove, a group of Palestinians and Israelis find that peace is for the birds
In 'Bella,' a man must navigate Israel’s borders to get back his father’s prized dove
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Could poetry revive Yitzhak Rabin’s legacy among young American Jews?
Barak Sella hopes his new English translation of 'Class of 95', Israel's first poetry anthology about Rabin's murder, introduces the slain leader to a younger, American crowd
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Did crypto-Jews invent the modern tarot deck?
A new theory argues that persecuted Jews in medieval Europe concealed Judaica in tarot cards
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Mamdani quoted Eugene Debs in his victory speech — there’s a long Jewish history there
The Forward's early decades were devoted to socialism, and specifically support for Debs
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Film & TV Israel’s Oscar entry is, once again, about Palestinians
Shai Carmeli-Pollak’s ‘The Sea’ swept the Ophirs and irked Israel’s Ministry of Culture
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Books She claims she saw Hitler’s ashes and danced with Goering. But is any of it true?
In a memoir about her adventurous mother-in-law, Terese Svoboda tries to separate truth from fiction.
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How ‘Spiritually Israeli’ became a slur that isn’t really about Israel
The phrase is applied to the Dodgers World Series win, Taylor Swift and other non-Jewish phenomena
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BINTEL BRIEF She just wants to be a good person. But she’s overwhelmed by the state of the world
Bintel says you can’t fix this broken world alone, but you can find joy in small things
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Books John Irving always felt like an outsider — is that all he thinks there is to Jewishness?
'Queen Esther,’ the author’s pseudo-sequel to ‘Cider House Rules,’ is a warped reading of the People of the Book
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Culture Inside the ancient Christian theology driving modern antisemitism
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News Jews paused Indiana’s abortion ban — by turning a religious freedom law against the evangelical right
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Opinion The moral degradation of Israel’s far right is even worse than you think
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News Mamdani to attend Passover Seder as he navigates ties with Jewish groups amid rising antisemitism
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