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Books Books Briefing: A mysterious postcard illuminates a French family’s Holocaust history
Plus doppelgänger stories, new Jewish romance and a reboot of a Yiddish classic in this month's books newsletter
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FIRST PERSON What would you do if you got a Nazi relic in the mail?
Unlike Clarence Thomas’ billionaire pal Harlan Crow, I couldn’t wait to get that thing out of my house
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Culture Echoing the language of antisemites, Emmanuel Macron has started to embrace the D-word
Exactly what does the French president mean when he speaks of 'decivilization'?
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Culture These Jewish Eurovision songs are terrible. Listen to them anyway
For every awful song, there's a moment when nothing else works
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Film & TV The heroic WWII rescue story that Netflix’s ‘Transatlantic’ leaves out
The Jewish Labor Committee rescued more than a thousand Jews — so why hasn't anyone heard of them?
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Film & TV The greatest film about France in World War II is also a blistering critique of filmmaking
Marcel Ophüls’ ‘The Sorrow and the Pity’ lays bear the horrors (and delights) of its own medium
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Culture Would you wait in line for 2 hours for a falafel? They certainly would.
For those in search of one of the greatest dining experiences in Paris, look no further than the Jewish quarter
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Fast Forward France unveils plan to combat antisemitism
Student visits to historical sites connected to hatred is just one the initiative's 80 measures
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News An Israeli restaurant chain said it closed due to boycotts. Protesters are celebrating.
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Opinion It’s time for the pro-Palestinian movement to make a radical change
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News Should synagogues remove the Israeli flag from bimahs now? How a New York shul made the decision
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Film & TV What the new season of ‘Nobody Wants This’ gets right — and very wrong — about Judaism
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Culture Leonard Bernstein wrote a love song to the White House; now it’s an elegy
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Fast Forward As 1000+ rabbis sign anti-Mamdani letter, others decry mounting ‘red lines’ in Jewish communities
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News Mamdani has created ‘great fear,’ and Jewish voters are ‘more motivated than I have ever seen,’ Cuomo says
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Fast Forward The World War II origins of the White House East Wing, now demolished
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