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Books Brooklyn bookstore parts ways with worker who canceled event over pro-Israel rabbi as moderator
‘It’s an outrage,’ says Rabbi Andy Bachman after event with author Joshua Leifer axed
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Books Transgression, dystopia and comedy reign at a Reform synagogue in a Toronto suburb
The stories in Aaron Kreuter's 'Rubble Children' seem particularly fresh and relevant after Oct. 7
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Books A masterful new Kafka book will bring you closer to the writer than ever before
Mark Harman's new translation of Kafka's stories may just be the best book published this year
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Books How a bestselling book became an unlikely lightning rod in literary fights over the Israel-Hamas war
The Korean-Jewish author Gabrielle Zevin has been targeted, and defended, for “Zionism” even though she’s never spoken publicly about Israel
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Books Must Jews be defined by trauma? Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s sharp new novel offers a surprising answer
For decades, Jewish books, movies and TV have equated Jewishness with neuroticism. Why does it still define us?
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Books She was a nice Jewish mother — and an organized-crime boss
Meet Fredericka Mandelbaum, who made a fortune from stolen goods and bank robberies
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Books Texas school district agrees to remove ‘Anne Frank’s Diary,’ ‘Maus’ and 670 other books after right-wing group’s complaint
The district in the Rio Grande Valley immediately agreed with activists who said the books were “filthy and evil"
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Books We’re in a psychological war with ‘the greatest propaganda machine in history’ — will we survive it?
In 'Stories Are Weapons,' Annalee Newitz identifies our mortal enemy, who looks awfully familiar
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In Case You Missed It
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Yiddish דער קאַפֿע-הױז װי אַ מקום-מקלט פֿאַר ייִדישער קולטורThe cafe as a refuge of Jewish culture
אין די בערלינער קאַפֿע־הײַזער האָט די אינטעליגענץ געשמועסט, געלײענט צײַטונגען און געשפּילן שאַך.
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Yiddish נײַע אָפּערע פֿאַרנעמט זיך מיט טבֿיהס טראַגישער טאָכטער שפּרינצעNew opera focuses on Tevye’s tragic daughter, Shprintse
די שאַפֿער פֿון דער אָפּערע שטעלן זיך פֿאָר די ווירקונג פֿון שפּרינצעס טויט אויף אירע שוועסטער און צייטלס אייניקל.
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