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Parents, Mind Your Manners
It’s hard to teach kids etiquette when adults behave badly. So put down your smartphone and pay attention.
iPhones Are Bad for You
What the ultra-Orthodox campaign against smartphones as “a spiritual Holocaust” gets right about technology
Hitler? There’s an App for That
Developers are creating Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini iPhone apps that offer little more than propaganda. And Apple’s gatekeepers approve them.
Jewish Centurions vs. Rome
Street performers who pose for tourists by the Colosseum battle city authorities
When Berlin Meant Business
Berlin was once home to 50,000 Jewish-owned businesses. A historian is now obsessively reconstructing their demise.
In Praise of Dairy Restaurants
A visit to B&H Restaurant on Second Avenue brings back memories of milchig establishments of yore
Curse of the Survivor
Singer Vera Gran was haunted by allegations of Nazi collaboration. A new book asks if survival made her guilty.
