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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 Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s selection as JTS commencement speaker roils graduating class
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Opinion American Jews have a Hasan Piker problem. Solving it is going to hurt
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Opinion How Israel became a country where teenagers murder each other in cold blood
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Sports NBA coach Steve Kerr: ‘Israel sought revenge for Oct. 7 and now 72,000 Palestinians have been killed’
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News Most Jewish voters rate Mamdani poorly, new poll finds
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Fast Forward After a Maryland teacher’s death, her 200-piece Judaica collection finds new life in a Jewish museum
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Fast Forward British Green Party candidate tweeted about killing Zionists from Anne Frank parody account
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Yiddish World New documentary captures the lively history of Yiddish theater in America