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Books Biden decided to ‘smother Netanyahu with love’ during 2021 Gaza conflict, new book claims
Franklin Foer’s new book on Biden’s presidency includes a chapter that conveys his hesitancy to get tough with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
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Books His memoir was a transcendent look at Black-Jewish relations. Can he pull it off again — in a great American novel?
James McBride, author of 'The Color of Water,' told the Forward about how his family’s story inspired his latest novel — and why writers should stay offline
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Books In America, motherhood is dominated by a patriarchal medical industry — can Jewish tradition show the way forward?
Discussing her book 'Birth Control,' journalist Allison Yarrow finds reasons for concern and reasons for hope
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Books Something wonderful is happening in the world of Jewish poetry
At the Yetzirah Poetry Conference, some Jewish poets feel they have finally found their very own shul
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Books Inspired by Chabad and a teenage mom, he’s given more than a million books to kids in need
BookSmiles is now one of the largest book banks in the nation
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Books How Milan Kundera embodied the Jewish spirit
The author of 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' praised Jews for keeping faith with cosmopolitanism
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Books Gifted to a bar mitzvah boy in 1936, a rescued book reunited two families. What other stories do Nazi-looted books tell?
The National Library of Israel wants to take a closer look at 35,000 books in its collection that had been stolen by the Nazis
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Books A Catholic photographer and Chicago’s cannabis king: How I tracked down the greatest bar mitzvah photo of all time
Two gawky teenagers shared a slow dance at a bar mitzvah in the 1990s. 30 years later, it took every Jew I knew to find them
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