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Why Didn’t FDR Help European Jews? Hints in His Decision To Intern Japanese Americans

Now, 75 years after the Supreme Court upheld the internment of civilians in WWII, it may revisit the ruling

By Rafael Medoff · February 14, 2014
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The Jewish Vote and the Nagging Question of Dual Loyalty

Charges have dogged American Jews since the 1868 election, as Jonathan Sarna explains in ‘When General Grant Expelled the Jews’

By Jonathan D. Sarna · March 12, 2012
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Lyndon Johnson Was Scheduled To Visit My Austin Shul the Day After Kennedy Died

But in December 1963, the new president made up the date, honoring a long Jewish friendship

By Cathy Schechter · November 18, 2013

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Civics Lessons

How Jewish immigrants learned how to be American citizens

By Jenna Weissman Joselit · February 15, 2019
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Womb Raider

In this week’s ‘Daf Yomi,’ Talmudic rabbis imagine a situation involving a weasel, a cow’s womb, a fetus, vomit, and a firstborn calf. Naturally.

By Adam Kirsch · February 15, 2019
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Sleepless in Seattle

Ep. 169: Advice columnist Dan Savage and Rabbi Will Berkovitz of Jewish Family Service Seattle

By Unorthodox · February 14, 2019
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Barack Obama at ‘Hamilton’

By Alana Newhouse

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The Real Reason Americans Support Israel (Hint: It’s Not AIPAC)

The not-so-secret history of Christian Zionism and its legacy

By Samuel Goldman · February 15, 2019
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Virginia Democratic Candidate Apologizes to Jewish Community for Past Statements

Ibraheem Samirah once suggested Israel was worse than the KKK, now he’s running for office in Virginia

By Liel Leibovitz · February 14, 2019
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The Value of Remembering Dead Workers

A planned memorial for victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire just cleared a major hurdle in New York City government—now who’s going to pay for it?

By Emily Bass · February 13, 2019

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The Kedushah Crisis

Sexual abstinence of married men roils the Hasidic sects of Gur, Slonim, and Toledot Aharon

By Benjamin Brown · February 14, 2019
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Class Struggle and the Dreamlife of Trump National

Indignant solidarity for my fellow golf-club workers

By Paul Berman · February 13, 2019
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The General Who Wasn’t There

Happy birthday, Ehud Barak!

By Orian Morris · February 12, 2019