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Fast Forward ‘Don’t tell my mother’: Schumer responds to Trump saying he’s ‘not Jewish anymore’
In his new book 'Antisemitism in America,' Schumer says Trump is not an antisemite
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Books Two middle-aged women defied the Nazis. One ‘wrote’ a book that betrayed the other.
Matthew Goodman tells the true story of Kate Bonnefous and her Jewish friend Etta Shiber, who rescued Allied soldiers trapped in France under the Nazi occupation
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Books In an Israeli boy’s coming of age story — tween angst, family dysfunction, and a bar mitzvah amidst rocket fire
Eli Zuzovsky’s debut novel ‘Mazeltov’ explores the turmoil of adolescence.
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Fast Forward Trump dismissed top Jewish donor Miriam Adelson as ‘so boring,’ new book claims
Michael Wolff’s ‘All or Nothing’ also claims that Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump refused to defend Trump against accusations of antisemitism
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Culture Military schools removed a book on Ruth Bader Ginsburg because of ‘equity ideology’
Is it possible to divorce RBG from her career of working on behalf of women's rights?
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Books Despite her multimillion dollar fortune and celebrity pals, Ina Garten is a true balabusta
In Garten's latest memoir, the 'barefoot contessa' is a lot more relatable than you might imagine
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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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Music In Elie Wiesel’s latter years, he and I discussed the effects of the Holocaust. Those conversations are now an opera.
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