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Books The ‘Hanukkah Erotica Book Club’ aims to connect Jews — with romance novels
But there is no erotica and sometimes no Hanukkah in the Hanukkah Erotica Book Club
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Culture How a lifelong fascination with Jewish culture led this author to become a science fiction pioneer
The work of Joanna Russ is honored with a collection from the Library of America
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Books Mosab Abu Toha isn’t the first Palestinian writer targeted by Israel
The poet was released Tuesday after two days in captivity. While the reason for his detention remains unclear, Israeli authorities have arrested and jailed celebrated Palestinian writers in the past.
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Books Palestinian poet who chronicled daily life in Gaza released after capture by IDF
Mosab Abu Toha had written essays on the difficulty of caring for his family during Israeli bombardment for several major American publications
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Books In her forthcoming book, Marjorie Taylor Greene says she donates to help reconstruct the biblical Temple
The Georgia congresswoman explains the donations in a chapter that she hopes will clarify her 'Jewish space lasers' comments
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Books Mitch Albom enters new Jewish territory with Holocaust novel ‘The Little Liar’
The bestselling author says he felt an "obligation" as a Jewish writer to tell the story
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Books Publisher removes Jewish stereotypes from classic Georgette Heyer romance novel
Heyer pioneered the Regency romance genre and subsequently inspired legions of authors, such as "Bridgerton" novelist Julia Quinn
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Books How Barbra Streisand’s interior design manifesto inspired an unlikely hit play
Over a decade before publishing her first memoir, the movie star made her authorial debut with a coffee table tome detailing her sometimes questionable, always ostentatious taste in home decor
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Film & TV What Gal Gadot has said about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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Fast Forward A Republican senator called Chuck Schumer ‘Fuhrer’
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Fast Forward The Ben of Ben & Jerry’s is asking Unilever to let his ice cream brand go
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Fast Forward 80 years after Auschwitz, kosher food will be sold in its town of Oświęcim
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