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The New England Patriots will square off against the Philadelphia Eagles this Sunday at Super Bowl LII, and fans have something to sing about it. Whether you’re a diehard Patriot or just tune in every year to hear the national anthem, you will be stirred by this strangely emotional parody of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” that…
Jewish football fans are well aware at this point that Robert Kraft, owner of the Patriots NFL team, is a Jew. A philanthropist and a businessman from an Orthodox family, Kraft has funded a professorship at Brandeis and supported football teams in Israel. The Hillel building at Columbia University bears his family name. But as…
Two weeks before the inauguration of President Trump, in a quiet diner some 25 miles up the Hudson, from Manhattan, Sana Krasikov said something she could not have imagined would be as prescient as, in retrospect, it clearly was. “I was asked after my last book, ‘What’s your most valued possession?’” she told me. “I…
