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Books He escaped one ghetto only to find himself imprisoned in another
Santiago Amigorena's novel imagines his grandfather's life in Argentina and the one he left behind in Poland
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Books I’m a rabbi who witnessed the attack on Salman Rushdie in Chautauqua. Here is how we can combat this type of hate
The brutal assault on the famed author in Chautauqua is a potent reminder of the power of civics education
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Books When the Saudi Crown Prince interrupts your Seder – and more things we learned from Jared Kushner’s new memoir
Kushner’s book, ‘Breaking History: A White House Memoir,’ is due out on Tuesday
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Books Salman Rushdie — like Jewish history — shows how wars against ideas end in bloodshed
The first step in the genocide of a people is often a war against their ideas. For leaders who aim to hold their own people hostage, censorship of free expression is the quickest way to fake absolute power, dominance and control.
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Books Growing up with a Jewish mom and a famous dad he never knew — the jazz musician Roy Ayers
Nabil Ayers' memoir reflects on family, identity and his journey to connect with a Black father who was 'really just DNA'
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Books Kushner opens up about his Judaism, Ivanka Trump’s conversion, and dealings with Netanyahu in new book
‘Most people think I’m Jewish anyway,’ Trump reportedly told his future son-in-law when Jared Kushner informed him that he was going to marry Ivanka Trump and that she intended to convert
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Books Kushner: Netanyahu almost thwarted Trump’s embassy move to Jerusalem
‘Bibi, I think you are the problem,’ the president told the prime minister in a tense phone call
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Books Why Truman Capote and Norman Mailer claimed there was a Jewish ‘Literary Mafia’
A new book details the rise of Jews in publishing and argues for their success as a model for other minority groups
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