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Culture Columbus May Not Have Been First Jew in America
(Haaretz) — On August 3, 1492, just three days after the deadline given to Spain’s large and vibrant Jewish community to convert to Christianity or leave the country for ever, three ships – the Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria – set sail from the port in Palos de la Frontera West. They were heading for the…
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Culture For Patrick Modiano, Nazi Occupation Offers Rich Backdrop to Tales of Trial and Triumph
Although London’s betting parlors had claimed the odds-on favorites for this year’s Nobel Prize for literature were Kenya’s Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and Japan’s Haruki Murakami, the choice of France’s Patrick Modiano was good news for Jewish readers. In awkward English, the Nobel Academy referred to Modiano’s obsession with wartime France as the “art of memory…
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Books Patrick Modiano, French Sephardic Novelist, Wins Nobel for Literature
(Reuters) – Patrick Modiano, a Sephardic French novelist, has won the Nobel Prize for Literature as “a Marcel Proust of our time,” The Swedish Academy said on Thursday. French writer Patrick Modiano has won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature for works that made him “a Marcel Proust of our time” with tales often set…
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Fast Forward Toledo Recalls Sephardic Past With Sukkot Festival
The city of Toledo in central Spain is launching a two-day cultural festival themed around the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. The festival, which ends on Oct. 12, will feature Sephardic music; workshops on how to build a sukkah – a flimsy hut where Jews eat during the holiday in memory of their ancestors’ nomadic existence…
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Opinion 9 Sephardi Dishes That Won’t Make Buzzfeed Gag
If your signature dish can be mistaken for cat food, you’ve got a problem. Or that’s what Buzzfeed’s most recent experiment would have you believe. They got “random people” (aka non-Jews) to try classic Jewish foods for the first time and recorded their reactions. The response to gefilte fish? Gag. To kugel? Gag. To matzo…
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The Schmooze 4 Jewish Ways To Talk Like a Pirate
Ahoy mateys! Arrr ye ready? September 19 is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Aye aye! To celebrate, we’ve rounded up some of the most fearsome Jews ever to sail the seas. Thar be more than ye think. 1) Jean Lafitte This French-American pirate, who sailed the Gulf of Mexico in the early 19th century,…
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Culture FMF Patients Battle for Awareness and Affordable Drugs
It was just a fever and a sore throat that first caught my father by surprise one morning in the early 2000s. But then the fever persisted on and off for weeks. After a while, he could barely climb a staircase due to his exhaustion. It took seeing five doctors — two internists, an allergy…
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Culture The Genes That Affect Indian-Jewish Vision
BEERSHEVBA, ISRAEL — Jews of Indian origin are, for the first time, taking control of a genetic mutation linked to sight problems that can’t be rectified with spectacles. Indian Jews living in Israel have their roots in either Mumbai or Cochin, and 1 in 10 Jews from Mumbai families carries a recessive gene that, when…
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Opinion Outrage over Nicholas Kristof’s op-ed on sexual assault of Palestinians is missing the point
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Opinion I discovered anti-Zionism at the University of Michigan. I’m glad it lives on there
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Opinion An alarming new battleground in campus fights over Israel
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