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Books How a Jewish daughter’s search to find her parents became a book and a play and a movie
Writer and performer Zara Phillips, author of 'Somebody's Daughter,' has turned her question into art
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Fast Forward Israeli police raid Palestinian bookstores in east Jerusalem, drawing international concern
The Educational Bookshop is popular among journalists and diplomats
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Books In the Italian city where James Joyce wrote ‘Ulysses’ a Jewish poet’s bookstore rises back to life
In 1919, Umberto Saba opened an antiquarian bookstore; a century later, the people of Trieste saved it
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News Sen. Ron Wyden says the Democrats need ‘chutzpah’ to return to power
A memoir by the Jewish politician from Oregon is an upbeat call for resistance
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Books 92 years ago today, Hitler took power. This historian wants us to see the lessons we’ve ignored from his rise
“Trump is not Hitler, by any means,” says Timothy Ryback. “But I think there are modalities that are very similar"
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Culture He was a Jewish leftist like Sandy Koufax — remembering Howard Zinn
The activist professor and author of 'A People's History' died 15 years ago at the age of 87
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Books Lee Yaron’s account of Oct. 7 attacks named Jewish book of the year
’10/7: 100 Human Stories,’ was among a number of books on Israel honored by the 74th National Jewish Book Awards
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Books A Jewish family’s trauma is the villain in an epic Israeli-Palestinian love story
Zeeva Bukai on how a tragedy drives intergenerational conflict in her debut novel, 'The Anatomy of Exile'
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News No Jews allowed: White supremacists are building a segregated community in Arkansas, but is it legal?
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Opinion Zohran Mamdani’s victory proves it: The ‘gotcha’ mode of fighting antisemitism has to go
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News What a Mayor Mamdani would mean for New York Jews
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Opinion Mamdani’s victory is an opportunity for Jews to relearn the art of disagreement
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Books This graphic history of Jerusalem is a big hit. But its Jews have hooked noses
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Culture Is now really the best time for a cutesy Jewish summer camp movie?
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Fast Forward Australia cancels Kanye West’s visa over controversial ‘Heil Hitler’ song: ‘We don’t need that in Australia’
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Yiddish טשיקאַוועסן: האָספּיץ־וואָלונטירס פֿונדאַציע שענקט שפּײַזקאַרטלעך צו אָרעמע פּאַציענטןTidbits: Hospice volunteer’s foundation donates grocery gift cards to poor patients
במשך פֿון זיבן יאָר האָט דזשעף לויִס אַוועקגעגעבן צען טויזנט שפּײַזקאַרטלעך.
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