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Culture
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Mark Zuckerberg’s company marks Sukkot with a virtually empty virtual sukkah
You've never Meta sukkah like this
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How Columbus brought America its first Jew
Luis de Torres was a refugee of faith –— and, in a way, America's first pilgrim
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Sharing communal sukkot during the ‘Holiday of Shade’
In the Ethiopian celebration, families join together in a community sukkah
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Building the very best Sukkah — in Uganda
Rabbinical student from Abayudaya community shares joy of Sukkot in children's book
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Behind the swankiest new hotel on the Lower East Side, a swanky Jewish history
Visitors to Nine Orchard might not realize they're living out a Jewish immigrant's American dream
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Did the head of the ADL just praise Elon Musk — by comparing him to a famous antisemite?
In a TV appearance, Jonathan Greenblatt called Musk the 'Henry Ford of our time'
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The secret Jewish history of the Great Chicago Fire
The first person to claim responsibility for the blaze was a young gambler named Louis M. Cohn
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Hulu’s ‘The Patient’ gets at a dynamic rarely seen on TV: Orthodox-Reform tensions
The series’ protagonist is a Jewish therapist whose family is strained when his son joins an Orthodox community
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Art Meet the artist behind the new Hanukkah postage stamp
Jeanette Kuvin Oren drew from Jewish traditional paper cutting to create a silk artwork for the U.S. Postal Service
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Bintel Brief Am I a prude for wanting my roommate to cover up when my parents come over?
‘Living with other people means living with other people’s idiosyncrasies,' Bintel advises
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How that Barbra Streisand ‘Yentl’ joke wound up in the year’s biggest gay rom-com
Guy Branum on ‘Bros,’ being gay and Jewish, and why the star of 'Funny Girl' is a lot like gravity
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