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Seven Days, Five Years

A week visiting my family in Israel

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Celebrity Rabbi, Heal Thyself

Shmuley Boteach—rabbi, sexpert, Michael Jackson pal—has led many lives. But none of them can obliterate his past.

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I Thought I Meant More to You Than That

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A Heartbreaking Picture of Rare Genius Shows America Without Jews

Richard Linklater’s Boyhood is the best film of 2014, and one of the least Jewish movies ever made

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How a British Museum Curator Discovered Noah’s Ark Would Have Been Round

Irving Finkel, an expert on ancient Mesopotamia, decodes a Babylonian tablet and traces its path to the Book of Genesis

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I Grew Up in Toronto, but You Can’t Tell From My Accent

I don’t talk like my fellow Torontonians because I was raised inside the ‘Bathurst Bubble,’ the city’s Jewish community

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The First Kosher Comic Book Blazed a Trail for Orthodox Outreach

It wasn’t as big as Batman, but ‘Mendy and the Golem’ gave Jewish kids a taste of pop culture—with a rabbinical seal of approval

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Inventing Israel

Historian Shlomo Sand argues that ‘Jewish peoplehood’ is a myth

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A View From Gaza: ‘It’s the Worst Horror Movie You Would Ever Watch’
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Nalan Al Sarraj describes the devastation on the ground
Former Bear Stearns CEO Alan ‘Ace’ Greenberg: ‘Everybody Knows I’m a Jew’
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An excerpt from Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk About Being Jewish
The Ding-Dong Derby
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The Shallowest, Least Thoughtful Commentators of the Week

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After seven years in Portland, departing with a mix of sadness and hope

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Operation Protective Edge enters its 18th day
Hamas Killed 160 Palestinian Children to Build Tunnels
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Militant group used child labor to construct underground network in Gaza

Hamas Killed 160 Palestinian Children to Build Tunnels

By Myer Freimann — Militant group used child labor to construct underground network in Gaza

To the Students for Justice in Palestine, a Letter From an Angry Black Woman

By Chloe Valdary — 'You do not have the right to invoke my people’s struggle for your shoddy purposes'

Celebrity Rabbi, Heal Thyself

By Batya Ungar-Sargon — Shmuley Boteach—rabbi, sexpert, Michael Jackson pal—has led many lives. But none of them can obliterate his past.

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How a British Museum Curator Discovered Noah’s Ark Would Have Been Round

Irving Finkel, an expert on ancient Mesopotamia, decodes a Babylonian tablet and traces its path to the Book of Genesis

After the Holocaust, the Dutch Tried To Collect Past Due Taxes From Survivors

How one shy, whistle-blowing intern in an Amsterdam archive uncovered a travesty that insulted a decimated community

Centuries Ago, Jews Were Farmers Like Everybody Else. Why Did They Leave the Fields?

Two economists argue that literacy, not laws forbidding land ownership, created a small, widely dispersed and highly skilled minority

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