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How American Jews Adopted—and Adapted—Thanksgiving

Special synagogue services may be a thing of the past but otherwise observing the holiday helped Jews feel like at one with the turkey-loving nation

By Jenna Weissman Joselit · November 22, 2017
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Family

A Tale of Two Kitchens: How a Nonpartisan Holiday Became Sacred

We have different levels of observance, but my family comes together for one holy day: Thanksgiving

By Jordana Rothman · November 19, 2012
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Middle East

‘Ambassador Samantha Power Lied to My Face About Syria,’ by Kassem Eid

A letter from a survivor of Assad’s chemical attacks about his encounter with Obama’s chief diplomat at the United Nations

By Tony Badran · February 27, 2018

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Israel Appoints its First Arab Christian Ambassador

George Deek, who has been called “Israel’s best diplomat,” will soon become ambassador to Azerbaijan

By Armin Rosen · November 20, 2018
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The Women’s March Must Listen to Jewish Women NOW

If the march leadership doesn’t take action now, the march itself will become a footnote as other women take the reigns of American feminism for themselves

By Carly Pildis · November 20, 2018
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Women’s March Founder Says Current Leaders Must Step Down

Teresa Shook, who came up with the idea for the march, says its current leaders allowed anti-Semitism to become part of the group’s platform

By Jacob Siegel · November 20, 2018
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The Scroll

The BDS Debate Enters its Next Phase

The movement is still on the fringes of American politics but with the Democrats pulling left it now has a seat inside Congress

By Armin Rosen · November 19, 2018
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The Trials of David Ben Moshe

He’s a convert to Orthodox Judaism, married to an Israeli woman, and wants nothing more than to become a citizen of Israel—so why has Israel’s government kept him stuck in a bureaucratic nightmare?

By Steven Davidson · November 19, 2018

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Food

Take Your Pumpkin Beyond the Pie

This Moroccan recipe for pumpkin soup is a perfect way to start a Thanksgiving feast

By Joan Nathan · November 20, 2018
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Observance

The Showbread Must Go On

In this week’s ‘Daf Yomi,’ the Talmud is ‘a kind of speculative historical fiction’ about Temple rituals

By Adam Kirsch · November 20, 2018
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Family

The Mayflower Maidel

This Thanksgiving will be the first since I found out that one branch of my family tree stretches back to colonial times

By Rebecca Klempner · November 20, 2018
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Not Jewish: Hunting

By Kinky Friedman

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United States

The Foreign Policy of the American Left

Second in a series on the American left: Michael Walzer and Bernie Sanders

By Paul Berman · November 18, 2018
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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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Middle East

André Azoulay Is the Most Powerful Jew in the Muslim World

What else keeps the Jewish-Moroccan relationship alive?

By Armin Rosen · November 15, 2018

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Culture News

Jules Feiffer’s American Follies

Giving thanks for Fred Astaire

By Jules Feiffer · November 20, 2018
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Book Reviews

Thanks in Advance

Episode 158: Iranian political refugee Shay Khatiri on raising $1.2 million for Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, and A.J. Jacobs on his new book about gratitude

By Unorthodox · November 15, 2018
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Culture News

The Re-Incarnation of a Frog

Rokhl’s Golden City: Montreal’s shape-shifting klezmer genius Socalled transmigrates into a new album—and gay porn

By Rokhl Kafrissen · November 14, 2018