You shouldn’t judge Soviet Jewish homes by their book covers, yet their bookshelves often contained the only clues that they were Jewish homes.
The overwhelming majority …
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By Menachem Wecker, JNS
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5/3/23
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Noa Tishby, 47, Israel’s inaugural special envoy for combating antisemitism and the delegitimization of Israel, is not known for holding punches. Her Feb. 21 talk at Duke University in Durham, …
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By David Swindle, JNS
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3/8/23
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In common with many people who spent their childhood in the 1970s, I loved Roald Dahl’s novels for children, especially “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” Of course, as a …
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By Ben Cohen
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3/1/23
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One of the mysteries of the war against Israel is the extent to which a monstrously twisted narrative about Israel and the Palestinian Arabs — casting the former as evil and the latter as …
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Melanie Phillips
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2/22/23
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One of history’s great literary revisionism discussions ensues when Moses and G-d converse after the Golden Calf fiasco. If G-d does not forgive the Israelites, “Erase me, now, from the …
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By Menachem Wecker, JNS
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2/22/23
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When did Jews start reading the haftarah?
If you were asked that question, you might recall a link to the Chanukah story, to a decree by Antiochus that the Torah itself could not be read in …
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By Celia Weintrob
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1/11/23
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We begin with a scene from 60 Minutes: footage of a young woman lying on the ground beside a scorched Israeli bus. This haunting scene is followed by Leslie Stahl interviewing “a big guy …
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By Deborah Fineblum, JNS
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12/19/18
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Tuvia Tenenbom, best-selling author of “I Slept in Hitler’s Room” and “Catch the Jew” will be speaking at Congregation of Beth Shalom this Sunday, July 23, about …
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By Zachary Schechter
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7/19/17
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With great tragedy often comes great insight, and such is represented in Rabbi Yehuda Boruch Kamenetzky’s just-released book, “Brainstorm: A deadly tumor. A young man. A story of …
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By Tiferet Schafler
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6/8/16
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