Best of 2021
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News What ultimate Frisbee can teach us about Jon Ossoff
It’s a muggy day in Atlanta, sometime in 2004 or 2005. Jon Ossoff takes off toward the disc. He’s sprinting, but it stays just out of reach. So he digs a cleat into the ground and throws himself forward horizontally, a lithe streak in flight. Faster in air than on foot, Ossoff gets his fingers…
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News Hasidic Brooklyn’s child matchmaker is under investigation
Read this article in Yiddish During a Hasidic teenager’s first day at a new Brooklyn yeshiva last year, the head of the school approached him to talk about arranging his marriage. “He told me, ‘Wow, you’re so cute. You’re going to find a girl fast,’” said the former student, who spoke on the condition of…
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News She was a Jewish QAnon supporter. And she thinks it could happen to you.
The meme that sent Melissa Rein Lively fully into the universe of QAnon was about the Holocaust. “I’ll never forget the image,” she said in a recent interview. “The meme that I saw that changed everything for me was a picture of Jews basically being put on a boxcar with masks, saying, ‘First they put…
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Nazi collaborator monuments How many monuments honor fascists, Nazis and murderers of Jews? You’ll be shocked.
There are hundreds of monuments around the world to people who abetted or took part in the murder of Jews and others during the Holocaust
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News A guide to the extremists and hate groups that invaded the Capitol
As photos and videos of the insurrection at the Capitol trickled out of Washington, D.C., a pattern emerged — well-known antisemites and their symbols were at the uprising or cheering it on from afar. That guy’s hoodie says “Camp Auschwitz.” https://t.co/I2hwHZ1MsD — Matt Ford (@fordm) January 6, 2021 Here’s a guide to some of the…
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Film & TV ‘Bojack Horseman’ creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg on his new, ‘unapologetically Jewish’ family affair
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News ADL chief attacks Zohran Mamdani, but gets his facts wrong
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News Meet the Jewish senator emerging as Chuck Schumer’s heir apparent
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Culture The Kennedy Center canceled its ‘woke’ programming — so why is this Jewish musical OK?
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Opinion Trump’s attacks on the Smithsonian come straight from the Nazi playbook
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Fast Forward As NYC mayoral race heats up, a Jewish school is now requiring parents to show proof of voter registration
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Fast Forward World Zionist Congress lifts ban on Betar USA head, permitting him to serve as a delegate
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Fast Forward Pioneering rabbi evicted from historic Krakow building rendered ownerless by the Holocaust
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