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That time Yiddishists met extraterrestrials a short while ago in a galaxy not far away
It was a normal summer internship at the Yiddish Book Center ... until the Jedi invaded our turf
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Activist, Professor, Politician, Aesthete — the many contradictions of Edward Said
You could read any of Edward Said’s books, but you couldn’t take them home with you. Looking back, this was obviously a metaphor for something or other. At the time it seemed like a simple-enough fact—but then, I was only a freshman. The Edward Said Reading Room opened in the spring of 2011, eight years…
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How I became the Yankees’ Jewish star (and made friends with Thurman Munson along the way)
This essay has been excerpted from “The Captain & Me: On and Off The Field with Thurman Munson” by Ron Blomberg with Dan Epstein and is printed with the permission of Triumph Books.. I was lucky to get drafted when I did. If the Yankees hadn’t been so bad in 1966, they wouldn’t have had…
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Behind Tucker Carlson’s white replacement rhetoric, a frightening antisemitic history
Replacement theory is inextricably tied to a hatred of Jews.
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Is the Israeli soccer team cursed?
The Israeli national soccer team is over 70 years old, but has caused everybody a lot of aggravation – especially over the past 50 years. The current aggravation is the topic of “Common Goal,”a fascinating documentary by Shuki Guzik that had its U.S. premiere at the Other Israel Film Festival in 2020 and which came…
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Christians are enraged by this music video. Why aren’t Jews upset too?
Lil Nas X is an expert at generating controversy. His latest music video, “Montero (Call Me By Your Name),” features him twirling down to Hell on a stripper pole and giving Satan a lapdance before snapping his neck and stealing his crown. For an extra bump of publicity, he also launched 666 retrofitted Nike sneakers,…
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Goin’ back to Zabar’s Zabar’s Zabar’s!
When did it really start? Was it when I made the appointment for my first COVID shot? Was it after I received the shot and heard Dr Fauci say that the first shot provided 85 percent immunity? Or was it after the next shot, the second shot, at which point 85 percent to 92 percent…
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In a historical time-bomb, echoes of Kafka and portents of Hitchcock
The Passenger By Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz Translated from German by Philip Boehm Metropolitan Books, 288 pp, $24.99 Unable to remember the phone number of the “friend” who offered to buy his house for an extortionist trifle, Otto Silbermann reflects that: “All misfortune stems from forgetfulness.” In “The Passenger,” Silbermann, a wealthy Jewish businessman, attempts to…
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My life as the big cheese at Murray’s
In 1987, bankrupt and divorced, I washed up in Greenwich Village at my brother’s apartment in the John Adams on Sixth Avenue He’d left Wall Street to do tax law in the entertainment business in Los Angeles, and told me I could crash at his place until it sold. I’d left the family grocery business…
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May 7: Forward archivist joins “Lot Talk”
This talk will take place on Friday, May 7 at 6 p.m. ET / 3 p.m. PT. Click here to register. Join the Forward, Urban Archive, and the Municipal Art Society of New York for a “Lot Talk” — a short, fun, and informal talk on random and fascinating aspects of New York City history….
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‘Let him fade into the woodwork’ — Madoff’s victims respond to his passing
Bernie Madoff is survived by his wife, Ruth — and the thousands of people whose lives he upended. The effect of the disgraced financier’s machinations rippled. Jewish non-profits reeled when the Ponzi scheme came tumbling down. Fortunes and more modest savings were lost, and so were the jobs of many who worked for Jewish institutions. Victims…
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How an antisemite like Baudelaire influenced generations of Jewish writers
According to researcher Brett Bowles, Charles Baudelaire, who was born 200 years ago April 9, 1821, was a raging antisemite. In an article from 2000, Bowles noted that in “My Heart Laid Bare” (Mon cœur mis à nu), a posthumously published book of fragmentary observations, the author of the collection “The Flowers of Evil” declared:…
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