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The 1911 tragedy reminds us what could happen when immigrant workers' lives are put in danger.
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Yiddish World A podcast about disappearance – and Yiddish life
Born in a Yiddish cultural space, “I Think I Saw You” asks intimate questions about visibility, loss and freedom
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Culture These two anti-Zionist Jews think the Israeli government is so bad, it’s funny
Matt Lieb and Daniel Maté, co-hosts of comedy podcast ‘Bad Hasbara,' try to put a humorous spin on a serious subject
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Yiddish World Why the Forward launched a Yiddish podcast
Each episode features one or two articles in Yiddish related to a specific theme
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Opinion John Roberts will not save us — but we might just able to save ourselves
Constitutional law scholar Leah Litman applies her strict scrutiny to what she sees as an increasingly 'lawless' Supreme Court
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Fast Forward ‘Be a human being about this’: Ritchie Torres, Adam Friedland and a sensational confrontation over the Israel-Hamas War
A conversation between a politician and a comedian veered suddenly from bro-ish to anguished when the subject turned to Israel
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Culture The podcasters making antisemitism Christian again
‘TheoBros,’ conservative men obsessed with biblical exegesis, are gaining steam online
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