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Opinion It’s been a dark year. The holidays are challenging. Let Isaac Bashevis Singer guide you
A great Jewish sage has simple, excellent advice that helped me — and might help you
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Fast Forward Rebecca Makkai, whose grandfather drafted a Nazi-era antisemitic law, is writing a novel about the rise of fascism
The author of “The Great Believers” has joined in an effort to fight antisemitism and also publicly criticized Israel
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Books What if Jews rebuilt the Temple?
Yishai Sarid’s ‘The Third Temple’ imagines a dark future for the Jewish state
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Books After all that controversy, here’s why Ta-Nehisi Coates (probably) didn’t change any minds on Israel-Palestine
Coates' trademark approach to journalism met a subject it couldn't make sense of
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Books How antisemitic was Joseph Conrad, author of ‘Heart of Darkness’ and ‘The Secret Agent’?
The author was known to disparage Jews, yet sometimes he was also thought to be one
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Books In the shadows of Nazi viciousness, an unlikely story of love and heroism blooms
Adriana Allegri's debut novel 'The Sunflower House' was inspired by a real-life Lebensborn institution
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Books Is it really so wrong to be into Nazi kink?
A new book mixes memoir and theory to consider what's tangled up in Holocaust sex scenes, and Jewish identity at large
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Books Tangled up in Boo? Bob Dylan wants this South African horror press to look at his short stories
Crystal Lake Publishing got an unexpected shout-out from the Nobel winner
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Fast Forward Poland returns 91 Jewish objects to Greece, decades after they were stolen by the Nazis
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