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Salman Rushdie — like Jewish history — shows how wars against ideas end in bloodshed
The first step in the genocide of a people is often a war against their ideas. For leaders who aim to hold their own people hostage, censorship of free expression is the quickest way to fake absolute power, dominance and control.
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Jimmy, Saul or David? How ‘Better Call Saul’ upends a biblical rivalry
Names matter in the world of “Better Call Saul” — especially the title character's
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We spoke to Miriam, the Hebrew tutor Nathan Fielder hired for his fake family on HBO’s ‘The Rehearsal’
Meet Miriam Eskenasy: "an Israeli, New York, chutzpahdik, Jewish person"
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The secret Jewish history of ‘For All Mankind’
The acclaimed series from Apple TV+ was just renewed for a fourth season
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Books Growing up with a Jewish mom and a famous dad he never knew — the jazz musician Roy Ayers
Nabil Ayers' memoir reflects on family, identity and his journey to connect with a Black father who was 'really just DNA'
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Why conspiracy theorists keep turning to Jewish mysticism — from early Nazis to modern-day MAGA
A viral clip of a Trump supporter blissfully misunderstanding Jewish mystic numerology raised old questions about how Kabbalah is understood by the public
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The secret Jewish history of Napoleon Bonaparte
Was Napoleon good for the Jews? One historian says yes
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Art Once buried in Europe, a Hitler puppet stashed in Frank Oz’s Oakland attic tells his family’s Holocaust story
A new exhibit shows several puppets crafted by the legendary puppeteer and director’s parents, who fled Antwerp during WWII
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Film & TV To save Jews and keep the Nazis away, these doctors invented a fake infectious disease
The new documentary “Syndrome K” looks at a great unheralded Holocaust survival story
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The Jewish ‘songs’ of Alain Resnais
A retrospective for the filmmaker’s 100th birthday finds a mixed, but compelling, bag of Jewish content
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This portrait of a 10-year-old killed in Uvalde is helping to heal a broken community
Israeli American artist Anat Ronen's mural is part of a project memorializing the school shooting victims
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News Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s selection as JTS commencement speaker roils graduating class
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News Analysis: As Democrats unite behind Platner, Schumer’s future as leader faces tests
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Culture An Israeli genocide scholar looks to Israel’s history to understand ‘what went wrong’
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News Protesters picket Manhattan synagogue over Israel real estate sale, testing Mamdani and new law
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News California man pleads guilty in 2023 death of pro-Israel protester
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Fast Forward British Greens battle antisemitism scandal as Jewish leader Zack Polanski targets historic gains in local elections
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Fast Forward Casey Putsch, candidate who asked Grok to praise Hitler, loses in Ohio GOP primary
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Yiddish װערטער װאָס ראַטעװען: ירמיהו אַהרן טאַובס נײַ ביכל לידערWords of rescue: Yermiyahu Ahron Taub’s new book of poetry
באַזונדערש רירנדיק דאָ זײַנען די בילדער פֿון משפּחה־רײַבונגען, פֿון באַגעגענישן װאָס ברענגען נישט צו קײן עמאָציאָנעלע פֿאַרשטענדיקונגען.