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The Manila Poker Group That Rescued German Jews

Little-known efforts led to the Philippines saving over 1,300 German and Austrian Jews from 1938 to 1939

By Robert Rockaway and Maya Guez · August 26, 2016
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Personal History

Transgender and Jewish

When I decided to physically transition from female to male, I didn’t consciously consider how my relationship to Judaism might change as a result

By Isaac Levy · June 23, 2017
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Visual Art & Design

My Tel Aviv Fashion Week

The founder of Paper magazine takes a junket to the Holyland, where designers are trying to reconcile the competing demands of play and pray

By David Hershkovits · May 30, 2017

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Famous Jews Get Hebrew Tattoos

On the gridiron or the movie set, the Chosen Ones love some traditional ink

By Sophie Aroesty · July 25, 2017
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Introducing: The Metal Detectors of Islam

Simple security measures forbidden in Jerusalem are cool in Teheran, Damascus, and Cairo.

By Liel Leibovitz · July 25, 2017
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Hey, Hollywood: Why No Biopics of Jewish Comic Book Creators?

With a biopic of William Moulton Marston, creator of Wonder Woman, about to hit the screens, why no movies about the Jews who came up with Spider-Man, Superman, and Batman?

By Gabriela Geselowitz · July 25, 2017
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Mahmoud’s Murderous Math

The ghoulish calculus of Abbas’s pay-for-slay program

By Liel Leibovitz · July 25, 2017
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‘I Had Fun During the Holocaust’

Documentary airing tonight on PBS tells the incredible story of three Italian brothers who return to Italy to look for the cave where they hid during the war

By Sophie Aroesty · July 24, 2017

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Observance

Reading Torah Against the Grain

Daf Yomi: Do Talmudic rabbis seek justification for givens by retrofitting biblical text to their needs? The case of the Sanhedrin courts.

By Adam Kirsch · July 25, 2017
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Notebook

A Different Kind of Holocaust Museum

In Brooklyn, a new view of the Shoah, aimed at ultra-Orthodox Jews

By Noa Gutow-Ellis · July 21, 2017
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Turning Religion Into a Theme Park

While Bible-themed venues have proved popular with American—mostly Christian—tourists, Israel’s Shtetl Museum had trouble getting off the ground

By Jenna Weissman Joselit · July 20, 2017
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The Angel of Mercy

By Alison Pick

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World

Twitter’s Theater of Radical Cruelty

Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo’s death is the latest occasion for social media-propagated callousness and ignorant moral arrogance

By Jamie Palmer · July 25, 2017
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Middle East

John Bolton: Trump Wants to Kill Iran Deal

The former George W. Bush administration adviser and diplomat talks Iran, North Korea, and other NatSec issues

By Lee Smith · July 24, 2017
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United States

Fusion GPS Illuminates the Brave New World of Manufactured News for Hire

News of the News: How the new sausage gets made

By Lee Smith · July 21, 2017

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Visual Art & Design

The Menorah as Symbol and Myth

A recent joint exhibit at the Vatican Museum and the Jewish Museum of Rome traced the surprising and enduring significance of the seven-branched golden object that entered ‘the temporal web of the history of humankind’

By Michael Frank · July 25, 2017
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St. Peter’s Menorah

How the Vatican warmed to Jews over the last century

By Fredric Brandfon · July 25, 2017
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Fiction and Essays

The Gift of the Mishnah

For the first time in English, a short story by the Yiddish master, in which 19th-century Hasidism meets its radical grandchildren in the 20th

By Isaac Bashevis Singer · July 24, 2017