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Culture A Palestinian restaurant faced a flood of online abuse — so its owners hosted Shabbat for 1,300 guests
At Ayat, a Brooklyn mainstay of Palestinian cuisine, there is such a thing as a free dinner
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Yiddish World VIDEO: A sign of Jewish unity as Ashkenazi Jews celebrate the Sephardi language, Ladino
Since many Yiddishists are intrigued with Ladino, Moishele Alfonso reported about the NYC event in Yiddish (with English subtitles)
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Fast Forward These New York City buildings will be lit up in yellow in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Sites include municipal buildings in all five boroughs as well as the Empire State Building
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Culture In a universe of rigid rules and unsanctioned passions, everyone’s a heretic
Jay Michaelson rewrote his debut short story collection — multiple times — before deciding it was ready to enter the world
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Fast Forward Jewish political veteran Scott Stringer eyes another New York City mayoral run
Stringer's 2021 campaign was sunk by sexual harassment allegations that he denied
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Theater For Christmas, the story of the Jewish-born Christian missionary who translated the New Testament to Yiddish
New Yiddish Rep’s ‘Gospel According to Chaim’ gracefully grapples with a taboo subject
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Books The best Jewish books of 2023
Grab one (or several) of these new classics before the new year
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Art After the war broke out, Sara Erenthal kept making art — in the name of peace
The artist's new exhibition situates viewers in a big, diverse protest against the Israel-Hamas war
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Looking Forward A handcrafted Torah ark perished in the L.A. wildfires. My dad’s was seeking a new home.
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Opinion This German word explains Trump’s authoritarian impulses — and Hitler’s rise to power
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Opinion I’m a Zionist Democrat. Mamdani has me asking if I must choose between my ideals and identity
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