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Books
The true story behind ‘Call Me By Your Name’ is a profoundly Jewish one
Andre Aciman's new memoir explores life in a constant diaspora
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Arnold Rothstein did fix the World Series and other Jewish facts from a historian of baseball and New York
Kevin Baker, author of ‘The New York Game,’ talks America’s pastime
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Politics How sci-fi visionary Isaac Asimov foresaw the madness of our forthcoming election
In Asimov's short story 'Franchise,' a super-computer runs elections and only one man gets to vote
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Books ‘Humans of Judaism’ tells the Jewish story, from the shtetl to Sandy Koufax to Hasidic rapper Nissim Black
The founder of the viral page calls the book a ‘family photo album’
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Why we should listen to Ta-Nehisi Coates even if we may disagree with him
Coates' 'The Message' warns against the dangers of mythologizing our past
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BINTEL BRIEF Can you be buried in a Jewish cemetery if you die by medically assisted suicide?
Bintel asks the experts on behalf of a reader whose husband has terminal cancer
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Books Judaism is a “silent character” in Nora Ephron’s legacy
"Nora Ephron at the Movies" explores film, fashion and food. Ephron's Jewish identity? Not so much
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Books Kosher pork and Jews riding sows — how pigs came to define Jewish identity
It might be forbidden, but Jews have a long and complicated relationship with the pig
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Theater Ex-hasidic, trans and brutally honest, Lili Rosen invites you to her ‘Second Circumcision’
The one-woman show is a funny, poignant account of the performer’s transition
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We bought the viral Amazon ‘tuchus’ boxes for Sukkot. What does that say about us?
OK, it was me. I bought them. But I wasn’t the only one
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Politics Why Doug Emhoff shared his bar mitzvah with a guy named Scott
The second gentleman has often spoken of the brown velour suit he wore that day. But a photo has never surfaced — until now
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Culture ‘The Pitt’ tackled the trauma of the Tree of Life attack. Here’s how survivors of the synagogue shooting reacted to the episode.
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Fast Forward Kanye West apologizes for his antisemitism: ‘I lost touch with reality’
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