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Fast Forward Citing risk to Elie Wiesel’s ‘Night,’ Iowa judge blocks key parts of state book ban law
Iowa’s Republican governor signed the bill into law last year along with other culture-war legislation targeting transgender athletes and student pronouns in schools
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Culture How did this feisty and ferocious Jewish-American writer fall so far into obscurity?
Mike Gold, author of 'Jews Without Money,' was an uncompromising leftist who epitomized the idea of a proletarian writer
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Fast Forward Florida district pulls many Jewish and Holocaust books, including Saul Bellow’s ‘Herzog’ and ‘Black, White and Jewish’
The Orlando-area district was the latest to purge Jewish- and Holocaust-themed books from the shelves in fear of a state law forbidding explicit content
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Culture The best Jewish books of 2023
Grab one (or several) of these new classics before the new year
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Culture In the Warsaw ghetto, where disease, cold weather and violence all exerted heavy tolls
Lauren Grodstein's 'We Must Not Think of Ourselves' focuses on glimmers of hope amid overwhelming catastrophe
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Fast Forward The ‘Hanukkah Erotica Book Club’ aims to connect Jews — with romance novels
But there is no erotica and sometimes no Hanukkah in the Hanukkah Erotica Book Club
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Culture Mosab Abu Toha isn’t the first Palestinian writer targeted by Israel
The poet was released Tuesday after two days in captivity. While the reason for his detention remains unclear, Israeli authorities have arrested and jailed celebrated Palestinian writers in the past.
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Fast Forward Palestinian poet who chronicled daily life in Gaza released after capture by IDF
Mosab Abu Toha had written essays on the difficulty of caring for his family during Israeli bombardment for several major American publications
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