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Columnists
Melancholy Gay Arabia
Moroccan novelist Abdellah Taïa confronts the challenges of gay life in the Mideast in An Arab Melancholia
Can I Get an Amen?
The first female rabbi was ordained 40 years ago. Now my Florida synagogue welcomes a woman to its pulpit.
Diagnosis Is Not Death
Two new memoirs, Memoir of a Debulked Woman and Fierce Joy, offer inspiring models for coping with illness
Obama’s Historical Chutzpah
Does the president really know more about Judaism than John Adams and James Madison did?
SNL’s Funniest Jew
Where Adam Sandler’s comedy is nuanced and proudly Jewish, Andy Samberg offers one-note assimilation











