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Spending the Third Night of Hanukkah with Ukraine’s Future

Dec 21, 2022

Candles. Sufganiyot. Missiles.

Dec 19, 2022

What made Bubbe and Zayde guffaw

Dec 16, 2022

Emma Goldman’s speech to an affluent club recalls a moment in American history when liberals fought for the First Amendment

Oct 26, 2022

It’s not so easy to separate Kanye’s anti-Jewish tirades from his artistic greatness—both spring from his paranoid ego, writes Ross Anderson.

Oct 12, 2022

How repeated failures and setbacks paved the way for NFL quarterback Nick Foles’ greatest victory

Oct 6, 2022

In Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt, the great playwright finally mourns his own lost Jewish past

Sep 28, 2022

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