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Books The Holocaust bus tour that was truly a trip to hell (snack bar included)
When Jerry Stahl’s life felt like it was collapsing, a visit to the Nazis’ most infamous concentration camps helped him find clarity
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Books New book explores the insane career of Syrian Jewish hustler ‘Crazy Eddie’ Antar
Turns out he was a crook who fled to Israel and spent time in the same jail where Adolf Eichmann was executed
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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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Fast Forward Why some Satmar Hasidic leaders endorsed Zohran Mamdani as mayor, stunning many Jewish voters
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Sports It’s so cool that Sandy Koufax was there for that
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Opinion I’m an Israeli who lives in New York. Here’s why I’m voting for Mamdani
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News Mamdani opposes Zionism, but wants New York public schools to teach about it
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Opinion When Rabin was assassinated, Israel changed before my eyes
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Fast Forward Mamdani said NYPD boots were ‘laced by the IDF.’ What is the relationship between U.S. police and Israel?
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Books She claims she saw Hitler’s ashes and danced with Goering. But is any of it true?
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Culture How ‘Spiritually Israeli’ became a slur that isn’t really about Israel
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