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Books Why a little-known Jewish writer from Belgium went viral — and why you should read her too
Jacqueline Harpman's 1995 novel 'I Who Have Never Known Men' has become a TikTok sensation
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Culture In just one family, four generations of Jewish doctors
Author and physician Ken Weinberg has inherited a history of compassion that started with his grandfather Misha
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Books In a time of xenophobia, displacement and distraction, we need Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ more than ever
Informed by scholarship and family history, Daniel Mendelsohn's translation is both vital and timely
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Books Legendary ‘King of Comedy’ Jerry Lewis placed a weekly Jewish deli order, his son recalls
Christopher Lewis’ book about his father explores the star’s Yiddish-speaking upbringing and his role in raising billions of dollars to fight muscular dystrophy
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Books They nurtured the fantasies of millions of readers — did they also pave the way for Donald Trump?
In Michael Grynbaum's new book, magazine moguls Si Newhouse Jr. and Alexander Liberman preside over the creation of a tastemaking empire
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Books After 40 years in Jerusalem, everything has changed except one man’s love for it
'A Rooftop in Jerusalem’ follows one man’s relationship with the city as its politics and landscape change.
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Books Is Gary Shteyngart’s latest dystopia any less frightening than the one we’re currently living in?
The author's latest, 'Vera, or Faith,' arrives in a world that may be moving too fast for satire to keep up.
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News What one Jewish reporter learned about forgiveness from two hate crimes in two sanctuaries
In his new book, journalist Kevin Sack examines how Charleston’s Mother Emanuel church and Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue became linked by violence — and grace
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Opinion I know exactly why leftists aren’t celebrating this ceasefire
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Special Report This school is fighting antisemitism all wrong. Why is it working?
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Culture Why Diane Keaton still matters
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Books A bespectacled, Jewish hypochondriac with literary pretensions and a creepy fascination with his stepson’s girlfriend — Guess who?
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Film & TV How a complete unknown created one of the most iconic music events of the 1970’s
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Fast Forward 3 more hostages’ remains returned as Hamas reasserts control in Gaza, potentially threatening truce
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Fast Forward How phase one of the Gaza peace plan is beginning to fray
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Opinion Trump drew Arab leaders into a historic peace agreement. Too bad about the one glaring caveat
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