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VIDEO: This Yiddish Hanukkah song ponders the meaning of the candles

The narrator of the song contrasts the miracle of the oil with the suffering of the Jews under the Russian Czar

By Rukhl Schaechter Dec 7, 2023 | 2 min read
Opinion
Jews Are Due For A #MeToo Reckoning — About Palestinians

To varying degrees, most of us live in a state of willful blindness. We see horror all around us: people lying half-clothed, unconscious, on the sidewalk; football players who sustain brain damage for our enjoyment; news reports about children dying of hunger. We see these things the way we see the passing landscape. We see…

By Peter Beinart Dec 18, 2017 | 3 min read
Culture
100 Years Later, Revisiting Franz Kafka’s ‘The Trial’ and World War I

This year marks the centennial of two landmarks of modernity: World War I and Franz Kafka’s “The Trial.” Both events have their origins in 1914, but neither ever truly ended: Upon his death in 1924, Kafka left behind an unfinished manuscript, while the peacemakers at Versailles left behind an unresolved war. Beyond their incomplete natures,…

By Robert Zaretsky Apr 28, 2014 | 5 min read
Life
The Myth of Choice: The ‘Queens’ and ‘Concubines’ of Goel’s Harem

Goel Ratzon, a 60-year-old man with long white hair and penetrating eyes, has at least 17 wives and 28 children, though the precise figure remains elusive. Ratzon, who apparently believes himself to be something of a messiah, or the modern embodiment of King Solomon, was arrested last week in Tel Aviv, as were some of…

By Elana Sztokman Jan 17, 2010 | 4 min read

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VIDEO: This Yiddish Hanukkah song ponders the meaning of the candles

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100 Years Later, Revisiting Franz Kafka’s ‘The Trial’ and World War I

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VIDEO: This Yiddish Hanukkah song ponders the meaning of the candles

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100 Years Later, Revisiting Franz Kafka’s ‘The Trial’ and World War I

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Ta-Nehisi Coates, JD Vance and the casualties and causalities of fact-checking

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