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Culture 21-year-old solitary Jewish female (me) seeks human contact at ‘The Jewish Dating Game’
Some Jewish singles escaped the dating app Matrix and found love the old-fashioned way. Me, I won a pack of free aikido classes.
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Music How the Yiddish ‘poet of the people’ wrote more than 500 songs yet struggled to be heard
Arriving in America in the 1890's, Shloime “Solomon” Smulewitz became the epitome of the 'Wandering Jew'
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Fast Forward From Shabbat dinners to ‘Talmudic discourse’: Jewish women killed in NYC shooting leave legacies of faith and family
Wesley LePatner and Julia Hyman were members of New York’s Jewish community
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Fast Forward Andrew Cuomo lists several Jewish endorsements on his website. But do they still apply?
As the NYC mayoral general election looms, Jewish groups and leaders are weighing their options
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Books This Jazz Age nightclub launched Rudy Vallée, silenced a Jewish tenor — and hosted boozy prohibition soirées with Amelia Earhart
The Heigh-Ho was co-founded by George Palmer Putnam who fell hard for America's most beloved aviator
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Antisemitism Decoded Zohran Mamdani’s playbook for defusing antisemitism allegations
Mamdani sought to comfort as many Jewish voters as possible without meaningfully changing his position on Israel
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Opinion How my Jewish great-grandfather paved the way for Zohran Mamdani — and Donald Trump
The language being used to attack Mamdani sounds a whole lot like what my great-grandfather experienced in the 1930s
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News What a Mayor Mamdani would mean for New York Jews
Zohran Mamdani’s victory upends decades of traditional Jewish outreach and Israel trips
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