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Books
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Books ‘I’m here with my two Jewish lawyers’: How Trump was pushed to disavow David Duke
In new book, veteran reporter Maggie Haberman highlights Donald Trump’s 'uncertainty' about disassociating himself from the nation's most famous white supremacist
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Books Kushner offered to pay to get the Abraham Accords ceremony on White House lawn, a new book reports
The book by veteran political correspondents Peter Baker and Susan Glasser offers behind-the-scenes anecdotes about Kushner, Trump and the Abraham Accords
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Books ‘Shabbat Shalom and Sayonara’: Loyalists tried to oust Kushner via Shabbat meeting with Trump
Former White House advisor Peter Navarro details in new book an effort to replace Jared Kushner with Steve Bannon as head of the 2020 campaign amid dismal polling
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Books An urgent call during Kol Nidre: The time this top prosecutor had to work on Yom Kippur
Geoffrey Berman, the former U.S. Attorney who was fired by Donald Trump, was in synagogue when a prosecutor called to ask whether Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman should be arrested
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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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Opinion Marco Rubio invoked a medieval antisemitic trope in justifying war with Iran
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Culture Why the loudest Jewish celebrity voices are not always the most influential
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Fast Forward A war-weary Jerusalem marks Purim one day after the rest of the world, a tradition born in what is now Iran
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