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Visual Art & Design

The Valmadonna Broadsides

Four hundred years of remarkable printed matter from the most important and extensive private collection of Hebrew books in the world

By Sharon Liberman Mintz, Shaul Seidler-Feller, and David Wachtel · November 2, 2015
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Observance

What’s the 17th of Tammuz?

Everything you ever wanted to know about the fast day

By The Editors · July 9, 2009
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Music

Jorma Kaukonen Finds Somebody To Love

The former Jefferson Airplane guitarist and Hot Tuna lead man comes home to his mother’s faith at his Fur Peace Ranch in Ohio

By Wayne Robins · August 12, 2015

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Notebook

Finding Your Truth

Ep. 189: ‘Born Perfect’ conversion therapy activist Mathew Shurka and Nerdette podcast host Greta Johnsen

By Unorthodox · July 18, 2019
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Family

Lessons for Living From the Burial Society

What a ‘death midwife’ has learned from the dead and dying

By Marjorie Ingall · July 17, 2019
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Food

Challah Is Not the Only Bread

Ethiopian Jews eat loaves of ‘defo dabo’ for Shabbat

By Joan Nathan · July 16, 2019
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The Smallest Woman in the World

By Clarice Lispector

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United States

Teaching High School Students to Demonize Israel

As a wave of anti-Israel hate spreads from elite college campuses to public high schools, some Massachusetts parents wanted to fight back. But they were not joined by the major Jewish organizations. What happened in Newton?

By Liel Leibovitz · July 18, 2019
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United States

Requiem for a Yeshiva Basketball Player

Nearly two decades after their prime, a group of former athletes take on younger players and their own illustrious past

By Aaron Kaplowitz · July 18, 2019
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United States

Everybody Knows

As the leading targets of hate crimes, Jews are routinely being attacked in the streets of New York City. So why is no one acting like it’s a big deal?

By Armin Rosen · July 15, 2019

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Music

Alan Lomax and the Search for the Origins of Music

Seventeen years after his death, can the anthropologist, ethnomusicologist, and folklorist who changed what America listened to overcome his original sin?

By Geoffrey Clarfield · July 19, 2019
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Book Reviews

‘Prairie Fire’ Memories

What does the Weather Underground’s 45-year-old manifesto have to tell us today?

By Jonah Raskin · July 18, 2019
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Fiction and Essays

The Ashkenazi Quarrel

Why can’t Jews get along with each other?

By Arthur Fish · July 17, 2019