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News New York health officials worry that polio will strike again in heavily Hasidic enclaves
'You don't find polio just willy-nilly in wastewater in the United States,’ said one public health official
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Books Fleishman is in trouble — but in this show, so is everyone else
One cat and two human Brooklynites live vicariously through the exploits of FX's morally bereft Upper East Side couple
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Fast Forward Jewish camp cancels summer session after court denies religious exemption to zoning rules
'Who is the municipality to say it is not Jewish enough?' said David Black, the executive director of the Sid Jacobson JCC, which runs the Long Island camp
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Theater Why the inspiring story of a real-life Holocaust hero can’t help us solve modern political problems
The one-man show 'Remember This,' staged by Theater for a New Audience, chronicles the life of Polish resistance fighter Jan Karski
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Fast Forward YU can block LGBTQ club for now, Supreme Court rules
A lower court in June ruled that the university's refusal to recognize the student group violated New York City's anti-discrimination law
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Art A new New York law requires museums to label art looted by Nazis — but is it constitutional?
Some legal scholars say the law is an example of ‘compelled speech’ and may violate the First Amendment
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Art The Jewish Museum’s new exhibit is barely Jewish. Does that matter?
A new exhibit on the early ’60s has little to do with Judaism or Jewish identity. Why is it at the Jewish Museum?
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Fast Forward NY governor signs Holocaust education bill, citing spike in antisemitism
‘This is not Nazi Germany,’ Kathy Hochul said. ‘I don't want the citizens of my state to live in fear ever’
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Books A bespectacled, Jewish hypochondriac with literary pretensions and a creepy fascination with his stepson’s girlfriend — Guess who?
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Books How Yiddish authors made a new world writing for children
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Yiddish „זאָלן מיר גיין אויף דעם דאָזיקן וועג, אויף דעם ווײַסן וועג“‘Let us go on this path, on the white path’
דער טאַטע פֿון אַוואַד דאַראַושע, וועמען כאַמאַס האָט דערהרגעט דעם 7טן אָקטאָבער, רעדט וועגן זײַן זון
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Opinion The hostages are home. The fight for their future is far from over
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Fast Forward Israelis are comparing Trump to Cyrus the Great – again
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