This decision ‘represents a denial of the complicity and active participation of many in the policy of extermination, which led to the murder of three million Polish Jews, some 90 percent of the prewar total’

Reuters Jerusalem reporter Dan Williams’s impressive debut novel from 2014 combines an insider’s edge with a page-turner’s plot

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Wealth Begets Love Begets Likes Begets Power

The saga of Wendi Deng, the ex-wife of Rupert Murdoch and maybe-lover of Vladimir Putin who helped Ivanka and Jared stay together

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Victims of Rabbi Who Secretly Recorded Them in Mikveh Sue For $1 Million Each

Barry Freundel, who is currently serving a 6.5-year sentence, is being sued by nine women in a class-action lawsuit, along with the Rabbinical Council of America and Beit Din of America.

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On Tu B’Av, Embrace Thy Neighbor

Sure, Tu B’Av is a time for romance. But in today’s divisive climate, the holiday also provides us with an opportunity to feel hopeful, and to sing together.

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The Ga-Ga Saga

The game is a staple of Jewish summer camps. But where did it come from?

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How a Seattle Synagogue Made News by Hiring a New Custodian

When Japanese immigrant Eddie Otsuka was released from an internment camp in 1945, nobody would hire him—except one rabbi who saw parallels in their personal plights

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How Jewish Camps Welcome LGBTQ Kids—and How They Don’t

Times are changing. Are our sleepaway camps changing with them?

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The Problem Isn’t Black Lives Matter. It’s the Occupation.

How Jewish criticism of the rights group reflects our own moral confusion about the last 50 years of Israeli politics

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West of Eden: Trump, Race, and Jewish Republicans

What Californians Roger Simon and David Horowitz see in the GOP nominee—and how it reflects deeper veins of Jewish assimilation in America

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Black Lives Matter to Israel, Not So Much to Its Racist Critics

Care about black—and gay and transgender and female—lives? Give them guns and train them well, just like the IDF does.

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Going to Vancouver

In an excerpt from ‘Meant To Be,’ the founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and its Museum of Tolerance remembers growing up on the Lower East Side

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Taking ‘Bout My Generation

This week on Unorthodox, 20-year-old twins David and Jack Cahn school us on Millennials, and Hare Krishna musician Gaura Vani teaches us a Kirtan chant

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Reality Bites, for Immigrants With Smartphones

Lara Vapnyar’s ‘timely’ and ‘insightful’ new novel, ‘Still Here,’ wonders what the American dream looks like to former Russians