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The Hills Are Alive, Not Dead, With NBC’s Live ‘Sound of Music’
The Tattler: So what if Carrie Underwood and Stephen Moyer revive the Von Trapps? Is that so wrong?
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Marjorie Ingall
How To Give Your Kids a Taste of the Jewish Immigrant Experience
Even though it’s just a few blocks from our home, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum gave my girls a chance to time-travel
Literature — Adam Kirsch
Miraculous Architecture of the First Temple Leads to Religious Sectarianism in the Second
To the Talmudic rabbis, a miracle is more plausible than the notion that their sources were incorrect
Literature — Adam Kirsch
The Talmud Says God Can’t Protect Jews From Persecution; They Must Take Precautions
A ‘mezuzah,’ like Judaism, is designed for life in this world, not for a messianic future, or for martyrdom
Food — Joan Nathan
How To Make the Ultimate Sufganiyot—Israeli Jelly Doughnuts—for Hanukkah
Video: Make your own miracle of oil by frying up a batch of sugar-coated treats stuffed with apricot jam
The Tattler — Rachel Shukert
People’s Sexiest Man Alive Is Adam Levine. Good for the Jews? Hint: No.
The Tattler: Out of the thousands of perfectly nice Adam Levines out there, they had to pick that one
Marjorie Ingall
The Best Jewish Children’s Books of 2013: The Perfect Hanukkah Gifts
From Jews in space to Bigfoot on the loose, this year’s selections take kids of all ages into new territory
Literature — Adam Kirsch
The Talmud’s Yom Kippur, With Sacrifice and Blood, Is Nothing Like Jewish Ritual Today
The rabbinic tradition arose from the fact that the Bible doesn’t tell us what we need to know to lead our lives
Literature — Adam Kirsch
The Importance of Cubits and Shewbread and Everything That Makes Your Eyes Glaze Over
In their faith, Talmudic rabbis kept contradictory thoughts, believing in both the reality of miracles and their unreliability
The Tattler — Rachel Shukert
How To Talk to Your Parents (and Bubbe) About the Pope
With radical views on gays, abortion, and Jews, Francis is modernizing the church. Can we convince our relatives to believe it?
In Defense of the Crass Consumerism of Walmart—and Everyone Else
Enough already with blasting shopping as soulless: Jewish tradition is nothing if not a defense of commerce
In Protests Against Prawer Plan, Signs of ‘Palestinization’ in Israel’s Bedouin Minority
Long seen as allies of the Jewish state, Bedouins may be embracing their neighbors’ identity—as a way of expressing their own
How Isaac Herzog Could Tilt Israeli Politics to the Left—Even If He Won’t Be Prime Minister
By building a new center-left coalition, Labor’s new leader has an opportunity to play kingmaker and restore his party’s influence
The Things Refuseniks Carried Out of the Soviet Union
On the 26th anniversary of Freedom Sunday, a photographer uses objects to look at the immigrant experience
Designers of New York’s High Line Set Their Sights on Moscow’s Former Ghetto
An ambitious new park is set to transform the dilapidated neighborhood that was once the Russian capital’s first Jewish quarter
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Five Years Later, Madoff Scandal Echoes Through the Jewish Community, and Beyond
The lingering effects of his massive Ponzi scheme on a century-old youth group, a Boston philanthropist, and small investors
Four-Letter Words: Why Jews Have Led the Making and Defense of Obscenity in America
Does sexually graphic material help Jewish continuity? ‘Unclean Lips’ argues for the unseemliness of Bruce, Roth, and their ilk.
Sephardic Singer Flory Jagoda Keeps the Music of Her Prewar Bosnian Childhood Alive
The composer of the beloved Hanukkah song ‘Ocho Kandelikas’ shares stories and melodies from her past
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