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Books Authors protest ‘banned books’ list in Florida that includes Shabbat picture book
‘Chik Chak Shabbat’ is on a list of titles off-limits to Jacksonville area schools
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Books Amazon CEO says he’ll still sell that antisemitic movie Kyrie Irving tweeted about
Removing ‘Hebrews to Negroes’ would leave out customers with ‘different viewpoints’
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Books Fleishman is in trouble — but in this show, so is everyone else
One cat and two human Brooklynites live vicariously through the exploits of FX's morally bereft Upper East Side couple
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Books Can a bottle opener or perfume bottle pry open an entire Jewish history?
In Richard Rabinowitz's memoir, unremarkable objects conjure up a story of identity and assimilation
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Books Do ‘bad Jews’ really exist? A new book says no
In 'Bad Jews,' Emily Tamkin recounts decades of Jewish infighting
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Books Still pining for John McCain, a ‘Big Guy’ seeks to take back his country
In A.M. Homes' novel 'The Unfolding,' the Jewish author imagines a life antithetical to her own
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Books How simply living as a woman can feel like a preexisting condition
Elissa Bassist's illness memoir is enraging, hysterically funny and very, very Jewish
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Books Leonard Cohen’s lost novel shows the artist’s surprisingly vulgar and violent side
The songwriter wrote the novel 'A Ballet of Lepers' in his early 20s, but didn't publish it in his lifetime
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