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Fiction and Essays

The Maharal of Prague and the Republic of Letters

Science and humanism—and Jews and Christians—collide in early modern Europe

By Joanna Weinberg · December 30, 2016
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Notebook

Are Jews at Risk for Parkinson’s Disease?

There’s new research into what was once called ‘the shaking palsy’

By Leonard Sokol · March 20, 2017
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Sports

Noah Kales Puts the Jew in Jiu-Jitsu

The Toronto-based champ is 4’10”, weighing in at 82 lbs., and 13 years old

By Louie Lazar · September 2, 2015

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As the Israeli Government Bans Same-Sex Adoptions, Likud’s Only Openly Gay MK Speaks UP

Threatening to vote against the government unless the decision is reversed, Amir Ohana nevertheless advocates looking at the bigger picture

By Eylon Aslan-Levy · July 21, 2017
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Solving the Mystery of ‘La Estrellita,’ the Vaudeville Dancer Who Was Really a Nice Jewish Girl from Cincinnati

Immortalized by Jack London and pined for by artists and governors, Stella Hurtig was a turn-of-the-century superstar

By Marjorie Ingall · July 21, 2017
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Immigrant Poets Celebrate Emma Lazarus’ Birthday with Tributes to ‘The New Colossus’

At a poetry festival at the 92nd Street Y, where Lazarus herself once taught English to Russian-Jewish women

By Sophie Aroesty · July 21, 2017
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‘The Last Tycoon,’ F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tale of Hollywood Jews, Debuts on Amazon Next Week

The author might’ve been an anti-Semite, but his final creation, the ambitious producer Monroe Stahr, is a complex and fascinating character

By Gabriela Geselowitz · July 21, 2017
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Ohio Senate Hopeful Josh Mandel Says He Stands with Misogynist Conspiracy Theorist Mike Cernovich

Cernovich has popularized Pizzagate conspiracy, claimed “date rape does not exist,” and promoted the false claim that Jewish DNC staffer was murdered in Democratic cover-up

By Yair Rosenberg · July 21, 2017

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Notebook

A Different Kind of Holocaust Museum

In Brooklyn, a new view of the Shoah, aimed at ultra-Orthodox Jews

By Noa Gutow-Ellis · July 21, 2017
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Turning Religion Into a Theme Park

While Bible-themed venues have proved popular with American—mostly Christian—tourists, Israel’s Shtetl Museum had trouble getting off the ground

By Jenna Weissman Joselit · July 20, 2017
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Food

Preserving a Jewish Culinary Tradition

Pickling goes far beyond the barrel of half-sours

By Leah Koenig · July 19, 2017
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An Undecorated Soldier

By Mitch Ginsburg

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United States

Fusion GPS Illuminates the Brave New World of Manufactured News for Hire

News of the News: How the new sausage gets made

By Lee Smith · July 21, 2017
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Europe

Nothing to Connect Them Except Hatred: The Torcy-Cannes Gang and the Problem of Anti-Semitic Islamist Violence in France

Who are these violent young men who seem so angry at the world?

By Marc Weitzmann · July 19, 2017
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Sports

Did the Great Italian Cyclist Gino Bartali Actually Save Jews During the Holocaust? An Investigation.

As the Tour de France wraps up this week, a historical debate still rages over who deserves credit for the production of identity cards for Jews hidden in Florence

By Michele Sarfatti · July 18, 2017

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Film

Farewell George Romero, the I.B. Singer of the Zombie Movie

The American master of horror and the Yiddish writer have a surprising amount in common, including a disdain for humanism and its platitudes

By Liel Leibovitz · July 21, 2017
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Cinema Verite

Episode 98: Film critic Jordan Hoffman on the summer’s best movies and fitness trainer-turned-shaman Stacy Berman on finding balance

By Unorthodox · July 20, 2017
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Book Reviews

200 Years After Her Death, Jane Austen Refuses to Meet Our Polite Expectations

‘Jane Austen: The Secret Radical,’ reassesses the writer and new face of the £10 note as Jewishly attentive to the complex moral challenges of life

By Ann Marlowe · July 18, 2017