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United States

My Struggle for Soviet Jewry, and Kate Shtein

The epic story of how one American Jew became ‘twinned’ with a coreligionist in Soviet Russia he eventually helped bring to freedom—and why it taught him so much about true resistance and activism

By Jonathan Feldstein · May 1, 2017
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Observance

Surprise, Discovery, Ritual, Meaning, and Wonder

Five years into the seven-year ‘Daf Yomi’ cycle of Talmud study, our columnist pauses to reflect on what the ancient text has taught him about being Jewish today

By Adam Kirsch · August 22, 2017
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Culture News

Why Friedrich Nietzsche Is the Darling of the Far Left and the Far Right

In our new political landscape, radicals on all sides find something to like in the German philosopher

By Guy Elgat · May 8, 2017

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May God Bless And Keep the Tsar…

Today on Jewcy: Executing a Shabbat dinner in the age of Trump. Showtunes included.

By Ilana Ross · October 20, 2017
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Farewell to Kolnoa Allenby, Tel Aviv’s Temple of Nightlife

For a few blissful hours, you could escape reality and feel nothing but the beat of the music

By Liel Leibovitz · October 20, 2017
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Straight Outta Satmar: Hear the Biggest Hasidic Hit of Right Now

Go ahead, I dare you not to dance to Meilech Kohn’s ‘Ve’Uhavtu’

By Liel Leibovitz · October 20, 2017
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The Scroll

On View: All the Art You Need to See This Week

Refugees in Tulsa, beautiful minds in Memphis, chocolate in New York City

By Alexandra Pucciarelli · October 20, 2017
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Why I Watch Old Baseball Games, Not Just the Ones I Missed Over Shabbat—and You Should Too

On the surprising rewards of re-experiencing a game, even when you already know the ending

By Yair Rosenberg · October 20, 2017

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Notebook

You’ve Made Aliyah. Now What?

Israeli agencies offer programs to help newcomers settle in, but some worry that the country needs to offer more support to prevent them from leaving

By Jennifer Richler · October 18, 2017
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Notebook

The Converso Comeback

Hispanic crypto-Jews use social media and DNA testing to reconnect with their heritage

By Suzanne Selengut · October 17, 2017
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Observance

Rebellious Elders

Daf Yomi: Why heresy is rare in Talmudic law, where judicial dissent and tiered courts institutionalized freedom of thought

By Adam Kirsch · October 17, 2017
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Composting

By Galit Dahan Carlibach

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United States

Chag Sameach, Obama

Episode 108: Former presidential speechwriter David Litt and foreign policy expert (and five-time Jeopardy champion) Thomas Nichols

By Unorthodox · October 19, 2017
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United States

Digital Fascism: Anti-PC Idol-Smashing Isn’t Just a Joke

Internet trolls, ritualized social-media cruelty, online cesspools, and their real-world political effects

By Jacob Siegel and Angela Nagle · October 18, 2017
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Middle East

The United States Serves Up Kurdistan to Iran on a Silver Platter

‘We should not have abandoned Kurdistan, the only real pole of stability in the region’

By Bernard-Henri Lévy · October 17, 2017

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Television

The Pfefferman Pfroblem

The fourth season of ‘Transparent’ poses a real conundrum: Why are these people so awful?

By Liel Leibovitz · October 20, 2017
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Film

Double Exposure: Jean-Pierre Melville

The ambiguities and darkness of Nazi-occupied France propelled him to flee his country, take a new name, fight in the Resistance, and then invent film noir. But the past continued to haunt him.

By Adrien Bosc · October 20, 2017
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Culture News

A Belzer Shtibl Boxed Set

Boro Park Hasidim chronicle their past, present, and future in luxuriously printed volumes part yearbook, part history, part social pages, part prayer book

By Jonathan Boyarin · October 19, 2017