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Oct. 7: One Year Later
How 10/7 — like 9/11 before it — irrevocably changed the meaning of a pair of numbers
Lee Yaron tells '100 human stories' amid the horrific wreckage of 10/7
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Looking Forward How one of America’s most prominent rabbis got on the path to the pulpit
In a new book, Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove meditates on what it means to be Jewish in "such a time as this"
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Books She was the Sandy Koufax of ping pong. Now she’s the star of a children’s book.
'Ping-Pong Shabbat' puts into print the story of a modern (Orthodox) ping pong prodigy
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In place of a proud emblem of Jewish immigration in NYC, million-dollar condos and a private garden
Gentrification comes for the Bialystoker Center and Home for the Aged
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In ‘The Brutalist,’ Adrien Brody wills an impossible dream
Brady Corbet’s epic follows a Holocaust survivor struggling to seize the American Dream
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Hitler is trending on TikTok again — and they’re trying to make him seem like a nice guy
Clips of Hitler's speeches garnered millions of views on the video app, largely selected to portray the dictator as peaceful
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Why ‘schlub’ seems to be the word of the year
In an election year, a Yiddish word teaches us how to separate the competent from the incompetent
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What’s your candidate’s position on Israel? Depends what demographic you’re in
Targeted political ads enable campaigns to present one idea to one group, and a different one to another
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Music Before his viral ‘Eating The Cats’ moment, The Kiffness remixed a Jewish Psalm
The South African musician worked on a version of ‘Im Hashem Lo Yivneh Bayis’
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A rabbi is overseeing Pornhub. That’s actually not so weird
Solomon Friedman is trying to improve ethics at the massive porn site
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Music In the words of the Torah and the music of Toto and Peter Gabriel, now is the season of renewal
Musician Michael Hearst's '80 From the 80s' project delves into the Talmud of pop music
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News Who was Horst Wessel, and why are people comparing Charlie Kirk to him?
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Culture Charlie Kirk kept a ‘Jewish Sabbath.’ What did he mean by that?
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Film & TV Robert Redford’s legacy is surprisingly Jewish
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News Was Charlie Kirk a martyr? Here’s why Christians are divided and Jews should care
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Culture Sam Sussman fashions a mother-son love story with a side helping of Bob Dylan
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News In Charlie Kirk, Orthodox Jews found a champion — and a wedge
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Fast Forward Palestinian Authority arrests suspect in 1982 attack on Paris Jewish restaurant
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Fast Forward Netanyahu says Israel did not kill Charlie Kirk, rejecting an idea circulating on the far right
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