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Books
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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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Books They fled the hell of Auschwitz, but that was not the only catastrophe they faced
Jonathan Freedland's 'The Escape Artist' recounts an unforgettable story of Holocaust survival
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Books Netanyahu memoir: Democrats feeling more leftist pressure on Israel than they publicly admit
In the new book, the former Israeli prime minister details his relations with four US presidents
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Books The courageous German ‘orchestra’ that tried (and failed) to stop Hitler
Tom Dunkel's absorbing history chronicles the little-known exploits of the Germans' resistance in WWII
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Books In Lena Dunham’s latest, a medieval teen gets a girlboss makeover she doesn’t need
The 'Girls' creator's adaptation of children's novel 'Catherine, Called Birdy' misses everything that made it a cult favorite
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Books ‘He sounds like a child’: What Trump really thought of Kushner, and more highlights from Maggie Haberman’s new book
Former President Donald Trump often diminished and mocked Jared Kushner despite giving him an outsized role in the White House, the tell-all book claims
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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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Holy Ground A Jewish farmer broke ground on a synagogue in an Illinois cornfield. His neighbors showed up to help.
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Opinion I discovered anti-Zionism at the University of Michigan. I’m glad it lives on there
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Opinion An alarming new battleground in campus fights over Israel
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Culture An Israeli genocide scholar looks to Israel’s history to understand ‘what went wrong’
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Opinion All American Jews should acknowledge Nakba Day — for Israel’s sake, and Palestine’s
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Fast Forward Jewish students wanted to bring J Street to Sarah Lawrence. Why did the student senate say no?
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Fast Forward Jewish Republican Paul Singer tarred with rainbow Star of David in Kentucky candidate’s anti-LGBTQ ad
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Culture Jack Kirby finally gets his corner of the city that made him super