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Personal History

God of the Poconos

Finding religion at sleepaway camp

By Elissa Altman · June 22, 2016
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Film

A Conversation With Mel Brooks

2,000-year-old writer, director, and producer is still blazing saddles at age 90

By Ivor Davis · June 28, 2016
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United States

Anti-Russia

Liberty and servitude in the new philo-czarist age

By Paul Berman · January 11, 2017

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Maya Reik’s Fashion Muse Is Her Bubbe

The 19-year-old Israeli designer behind the Marei 1998 label is proud to get many of her sartorial cues from her grandmother

By Jessica Ritz · June 27, 2017
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Every. Streisand. Movie. Ever.

Well, nearly. The Quad Cinema in New York is paying homage to Barbra Streisand with a weeklong movie marathon.

By Sophie Aroesty · June 26, 2017
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Pride and Prejudice in the Jewish State

Recent events—from Pride in Beersheba to Netanyahu scrapping plans for an egalitarian prayer space at the Kotel—serve as a reminder to fight for the Israel you want to see

By Yair Rosenberg · June 26, 2017
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Gene Simmons Didn’t Get Far in His Quest to Trademark His Trademark Hand Gesture

You’ve seen it before, sure. But Simmons, as we’ve come to learn, wasn’t the first to use this very, very cool sign.

By Jonathan Zalman · June 26, 2017
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It’s Going To Be a ‘Wet Hot’ Summer. Again!

The defining Jewish summer camp movie-turned-TV series is back, baby!

By Sophie Aroesty · June 26, 2017

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Observance

What Happens When a Dying Man Doesn’t Die

A question of morals for a loopy Coen-brothers script, in this week’s ‘Daf Yomi’ Talmud study

By Adam Kirsch · June 27, 2017
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Family

Losing My Daughter

A father’s story

By Adam Burnat · June 26, 2017
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Food

Pitas, Pride, and Prejudice

Israeli cuisine is the all the rage in New York these days. But it’s missing one key ingredient: nationalism.

By Liel Leibovitz · June 23, 2017
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Festival of the Departed

By Susan Daitch

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Middle East

Are North Korea and Iran Cooperating to Build Long-Range Weapons of Mass Destruction? An Assessment.

Iran Week: Here’s what we know about Iran’s secret ballistic missile and nuclear technological exchanges with the defiant rogue state of North Korea

By Anthony H. Cordesman · June 26, 2017
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Middle East

The Iranian Regime Makes War on Queers

Iran Week: Homosexuals and other sexual minorities face increasingly dire circumstances under the repressive Shiite theocracy

By Arsham Parsi · June 26, 2017
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United States

Dykes vs. Kikes

Chicago’s Dyke March targets LGBTQ Jews with old-fashioned anti-Semitism

By James Kirchick · June 26, 2017

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Book Reviews

The Iranian Intellectual Who Inspired the Islamic Revolution and Admired Israel

Iran Week: Jalal Al-e Ahmad’s astonishing and paradoxical account of his 1963 travels in the Holyland, newly translated and reissued as ‘The Israeli Republic’

By Scott Abramson · June 26, 2017
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Visual Art & Design

Was Florine Stettheimer a Good Painter?

The Jewish Museum’s current show gives viewers a second chance to ‘see her light,’ and to see the socialite and troubled daughter behind the art

By Frances Brent · June 22, 2017
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Culture News

Remembering Homework

Rokhl’s Golden City: Bringing Yiddish children to life, while 1970s New York drops dead

By Rokhl Kafrissen · June 21, 2017