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The Holocaust survivor writer who can help us through this ominous era
Arnošt Lustig experienced the worst of humanity — and maintained hope, anyway
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Opinion What if Donald Trump puts his name on the US Holocaust Memorial Museum?
in our new Trumpian world, even the most unthinkable acts now seem plausible
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Opinion ‘Jesus is a Palestinian,’ claims a Times Square billboard. Um, not quite
A new billboard in Times Square is misguided in dangerous ways
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Opinion An Israeli media mainstay is crumbling. Will liberal democracy go with it?
With a vote to close Army Radio, the cabinet takes yet another alarming antidemocratic step
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Letters My childhood echoes in newly released Shoah recordings
The New York Historical is exhibiting recordings made by Claude Lanzmann as he was researching his film, 'Shoah'
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Opinion The Gaza hostage crisis could forever change how American Jews relate to Israel — but it’s not too late to fix that
The US approach to advocacy widened the gap between how American Jews relate to Israel and how Israelis understand themselves
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Opinion When my children decorate for Hanukkah, I don’t just see pride. I see pluralism in action.
The shooting in Sydney highlights the deadly consequences of a world intolerant visible religious difference, writes a rabbi
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Opinion He lost family during the Bondi Beach attack. Hours later, he helped feed 600 unhoused people in LA
Yossi Segelman grew up with Rabbi Eli Schlanger
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Opinion Why Poland’s president canceled his menorah lighting — and how the West helped make that happen
Ending the menorah lighting at Poland’s presidential palace isn’t a minor break with tradition — it’s the predictable result of years of accommodation with Holocaust distortion and antisemitism
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Opinion I’m a 25-year-old semi-Zionist. Here’s what that means this Hanukkah.
My Jewish identity has evolved since Oct. 7
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Letters Australia’s Yiddish community is thriving, not reviving
Yiddish has been sustained as a language there for more than 100 years
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