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Books
Brooklyn bookstore parts ways with worker who canceled event over pro-Israel rabbi as moderator
‘It’s an outrage,’ says Rabbi Andy Bachman after event with author Joshua Leifer axed
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It’s impossible to moderate artificial intelligence. Maybe we should stop trying
Instagram and X recently launched AI's that regularly break the platforms' own moderation rules.
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Though cozy with antisemites, this movie star confronted his country’s complicity in the Holocaust
A supremely contradictory figure, Alain Delon, who died at 88, was rightly called a 'sacred monster'
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Theater ‘Once Upon a Mattress’ started at a Jewish summer camp. Now it’s making a rowdy return to Broadway
A look into the socialist Jewish summer camp origins of the campy musical theater hit
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‘I’d tell myself I could absorb into white America’: Probing assimilation and the Holocaust, in a graphic memoir
‘Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz’ is a funny and harrowing account of Shoah survivors and their descendants
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Books Transgression, dystopia and comedy reign at a Reform synagogue in a Toronto suburb
The stories in Aaron Kreuter's 'Rubble Children' seem particularly fresh and relevant after Oct. 7
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The second Yiddish Harry Potter book arrives, and J.K. Rowling is she who must not be named
A 'monumental achievement' for Yiddish literature is painful for many given Rowling’s attacks on trans people
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How ‘antisemitic morons’ tried to create a Jew-free world in Paraguay
'Nueva Germania' was the brainchild of Bernhard Förster, much to the consternation of his brother-in-law Friedrich Nietzsche
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BINTEL BRIEF I’m trans, frum, anti-Zionist and lonely. Should I stop trying to fit in where I’m not wanted?
Bintel tackles a letter from a reader who can't tell if they're disliked more for their queerness or their politics
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How Doug Emhoff embodies a very specific form of Jewish joy
Speaking in Paris at the site of a deadly 1982 antisemitic attack, Emhoff displayed a defiant 'glik'
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Film & TV 5 films to watch with kids this Tisha B’Av
On a painful day of Jewish mourning, here are some movies that tackle grief, sadness and Jewish suffering in a kid-friendly way
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Fast Forward Why some Satmar Hasidic leaders endorsed Zohran Mamdani as mayor, stunning many Jewish voters
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News How Mamdani became New York’s next mayor, with Jews divided between fierce opposition and fiery support
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Culture Mamdani’s first statement on antisemitism as mayor-elect got some weird pushback
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Opinion I’m an Israeli who lives in New York. Here’s why I’m voting for Mamdani
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Opinion Why a concert hall should be the last place for a protest — particularly an antisemitic one like this
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Looking Forward What Hailey Bieber smoothies and instant matzo ball soup reveal about American Jewish taste
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Culture Mamdani’s first statement on antisemitism as mayor-elect got some weird pushback
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Film & TV On the trail of a priceless dove, a group of Palestinians and Israelis find that peace is for the birds
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