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Opinion What critics miss when they accuse Israel of ‘scholasticide’ and ‘domicide’
Scholasticide is one of several new terms that has been used to describe Israel's actions in Gaza
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Fast Forward What happened to relics of Syria’s Jewish history? Assad’s collapse spurs efforts to assess the damage.
Bombardment, looting and disuse have wreaked an uncertain toll on the country’s former synagogues and Jewish sites
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Culture How the biggest antisemitic riot in America transformed Jewish history
Scott Seligman's new book looks back at the events surrounding the New York funeral of Rabbi Jacob Joseph
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Opinion George Santayana was wrong — remembering the past won’t always protect us
In these dark times, historians have one deceptively simple and immensely difficult job to perform
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Fast Forward A Holocaust exhibit — and Jewish staffer — are involved in a controversy over the National Archives
A Wall Street Journal story alleges the agency’s leadership is de-emphasizing difficult historical topics
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Books Kosher pork and Jews riding sows — how pigs came to define Jewish identity
It might be forbidden, but Jews have a long and complicated relationship with the pig
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