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Europe

The Truth About George Soros

Understanding the Jewish billionaire—who is neither the villain of right-wing caricature, nor the angel of left-wing hagiography

By James Kirchick · November 18, 2018
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Messages in Stone

A new study of old Jewish cemeteries in Europe finds the epitaphs whispering at us

By Gavriel Savit · November 14, 2018
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Visual Art & Design

Dressing for Paradise

Was Frida Kahlo Jewish, and does it matter? A blockbuster show at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum brings the Mexican artist’s contradictions to life.

By Frances Brent · November 1, 2018

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And Then They Came for Cornelia

A final evening of talk and tipple with the owner of a Greenwich Village institution driven out of business by rising rents, before another bit of old New York bites the dust

By Alex Brook Lynn · December 18, 2018
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The Scroll

The New York Times Just Published an Unqualified Recommendation for an Insanely Anti-Semitic Book

The book, recommended by author Alice Walker, repeatedly cites the ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion,’ dubs the Talmud ‘among the most appallingly racist documents on the planet,’ and says Jews funded the Holocaust and control the KKK

By Yair Rosenberg · December 17, 2018
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Taking the Swastikas out of High School Musicals

Why censoring Nazi imagery in student theater isn’t good for anyone

By Marjorie Ingall · December 17, 2018
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A Parting of Ways

Christopher Hitchens died seven years ago this Saturday, a decade after breaking ranks with onetime friend Gore Vidal and beginning a feud that symbolized major changes in left-wing politics

By Liam Hoare · December 14, 2018
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A Pittsburgh Survivor’s Daughter Reflects on Gun Violence

On the six-year anniversary of the Sandy Hook massacre, the need to take real action to curb gun violence is more urgent than ever

By Yael Perlman · December 14, 2018

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Notebook

Song of Passaic

In my New Jersey town, Torah comes before bread

By Alter Yisrael Shimon Feuerman · December 18, 2018
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Observance

Natural Causes

In this week’s ‘Daf Yomi,’ intentionality and human agency remain at the heart of Jewish law. Plus: the difference between a pagan and a heretic.

By Adam Kirsch · December 18, 2018
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Food

Whiskey Takes Off in Israel

As the drink has gained popularity, distilleries have created a new whiskey scene—one with a distinctly Israeli flavor

By Sara Toth Stub · December 17, 2018
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Creative Trauma

By Melanie Thernstrom

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Middle East

The Curtain Is Falling on Bibi’s Lebanese Belly Dance

What lies beneath seven years of Israeli rhetoric about Iran?

By Tony Badran · December 13, 2018
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United States

Is the Women’s March Melting Down?

Millions of women mobilized against gender inequality and the election of Donald Trump in 2016. But only four of them ended up at the top—and the consequences have been enormous.

By Leah McSweeney and Jacob Siegel · December 10, 2018
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United States

CUNY’s Anti-Semitism Problem and the Campaign to Fire Michael Goldstein

Is a Kingsborough Community College professor a racist or a victim of ‘academic mobbing’?

By Armin Rosen · December 9, 2018

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Culture News

Not Jewish: Shaving

Why ‘smooth as a baby’s bottom’ rarely applies to Jewish men’s faces

By Gary Shteyngart · December 17, 2018
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Film

The Esthers: Top 10 Jewish Films of 2018

World War II, the Cold War, American racism, Polish introspection, and Jerry Lewis

By J. Hoberman · December 14, 2018
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Jules Feiffer’s American Follies

Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump

By Jules Feiffer · December 14, 2018