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Fast Forward Finalists announced for lucrative Jewish literary award
The winner of the 2026 Sami Rohr Prize will be named this month
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Books Retracing the epic journey of the world’s oldest Jew
The book “I, Wandering Jew” takes stock of a myth that will not die
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Books Reading a Pakistani author’s 30-year-old novel helped me understand my parents’ views on intermarriage
In Bapsi Sidhwa's 'An American Brat,' the distance between New York Jews and Lahore's Parsi community is smaller than you'd think
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Looking Forward The bizarre antisemitic book that taught me to better understand Judaism
Hector Bolitho's 'Twelve Jews,' published in 1934, tried to defend Jews — in one of the strangest ways possible
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Fast Forward A best-selling novelist identified a minor character as Israeli. Some fans are canceling their orders.
RF Kuang’s critics say the character "normalizes" a country they oppose
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Fast Forward A new Hebrew press in Berlin argues that Israel doesn’t own the language
Altneuland is the first non-religious Hebrew publishing house to set up outside of Israel since the state was established
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Books A New Jersey congregation was already falling apart. Then came Oct 7.
In the novel ‘Partly Strong, Partly Broken,’ a rabbi tries to keep her congregants together in the weeks leading up to October 7
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Fast Forward J.D. Salinger asked publishers to remove references to his Jewish heritage, newly surfaced letters reveal
“The Catcher in the Rye” could have had "that Jewish-Irish business" on its jacket, the letters show
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Opinion New York’s Israel Day parade was a shanda — but not because of Mamdani
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News Floyd Mayweather showered cash on Jewish causes — and now he’s suing their ‘Robin Hood’ alleging $175 million got diverted
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Opinion How can I live freely as a Jew in a world where strangers rip my mezuzah off my doorframe?
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Opinion Mamdani has made ample efforts for Jews. How come no one is telling that story?
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Opinion Trump’s humiliation of Netanyahu marks a sea change in the US-Israel relationship
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Fast Forward NYU student draws hate crime charges for flying flag with swastikas, Star of David over campus building
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Yiddish פֿאָרשונגען פֿון וויכטיקע היסטאָריקער אויף ייִדיש — איצט אַרויס אויף ענגלישResearch studies in Yiddish by noted historians, now in English
דער באַגריף, ייִדישע אױטאָנאָמיע אין גלות — הײַנט פּאָפּולער בײַ קריטיקער פֿון ציוניזם — איז היסטאָריש ניט געװען קײן דערפֿאָלג.
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Culture In the course of his 104 years, he resisted the Nazis, fought against blood libel and became a towering Jewish intellectual