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Stitched in faith, woven in memory, these precious artifacts bind Jews to their history
An exhibit of Torah binders shows the symbolic and functional aspect of Jewish ritual objects
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Israel closed the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and set off a Holy Week firestorm
Concerns over Israel's treatment of its Christian residents have been chipping away at American support for the state
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Books How New York Jews made pickles a big dill
‘The Pickled City’ is an ode to the humble kosher cuke
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Art While sculpting Jesus, this Jewish artist wrestled with his demons
In ‘Jimmy & the Demons,’ James Grashow confronted mortality as he finished his last big project
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America’s oldest synagogue closed. Then an unlikely group tended its cemetery.
For decades after its congregation faded, one of America’s oldest Jewish cemeteries endured — preserved by both Christians and Jews
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Inside the ancient Christian theology driving modern antisemitism
Supersessionism might sound like an esoteric theological concept, but it has clear repercussions for Jews
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In my Passover memories, the magnolia trees of Brooklyn are always in bloom
When I was growing up in Borough Park, springtime arrived with the scent of latkes and blossoming trees
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Film & TV An Israeli dissident filmmaker finds tainted love amid the Gaza rubble
Nadav Lapid's ‘Yes’ takes on the war, art and the soul of a nation
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For this unconventional Jewish organization, tradition takes a back seat to community
With its mostly online and often atypical programming, Judaism Unbound wants to bring egalitarian Jewish life into the 21st century
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One’s Israeli and one’s Palestinian — can these two restaurants coexist peacefully in the shadow of Columbia University?
The owners of Miznon and Hinds Hall Ayat say the focus of their new locations is culinary, not political
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Books In 3 centuries of Southern Jewish life in the Big Easy, no easy way to be Jewish
Nicholas Lemann’s ‘Returning’ is a sprawling family history of the limits of assimilation
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Culture Inside the ancient Christian theology driving modern antisemitism
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News Jews paused Indiana’s abortion ban — by turning a religious freedom law against the evangelical right
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News Mamdani to attend Passover Seder as he navigates ties with Jewish groups amid rising antisemitism
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