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Observance

The Modern-day Appeal of Tu B’Shevat

The Jewish New Year of the Trees demands little of us, but offers us a chance to connect our roots with good causes, new rituals, and recipes

By Jenna Weissman Joselit · January 30, 2018
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Observance

In the California Desert, Wilderness Torah Takes Judaism Back to Nature

Founder Zelig Golden, an environmental lawyer turned rabbi-in-training, tries ‘to reconnect the Jewish people’ to the earth

By Merissa Nathan Gerson · December 3, 2013
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Food

How To Make a Salad That Brings Together the Flavors of Ancient Israel

Filled with figs, dates, pomegranates, and olives, it’s perfect for Tu B’Shevat—or any time of year

By Joan Nathan · January 20, 2016

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The Women’s March Doesn’t Get to Decide Who the ‘White Jews’ Are

Singling out ‘white Jews’ isn’t progress, it’s just more of the same prejudice and exclusion from the Women’s March

By Lizzie Skurnick · January 17, 2019
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The Scroll

Albania’s Post-Communist Rebirth Gets a Jewish Twist

A visit to the only Jewish museum in Albania—Europe’s most Muslim nation and Islam’s most secular

 

By Theo Canter · January 17, 2019
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The Scroll

The Grand Canvases of Nirit Takele’s Ethiopian-Israeli Experience

The painter Nirit Takele, already a celebrated artist at 33 years old, is evoking the spirit of both her homelands in her bold work

By Rachel Ringler · January 16, 2019
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The Scroll

Why Naftali Bennett Decapitated the Settler Right and What It Means for Israel’s Future

How the shaming of a soccer star led to the biggest shake-up in Israeli politics and finally unchained Netanyahu’s chief right-wing rival

By Yair Rosenberg · January 15, 2019
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The Scroll

The Surprising Popularity of Kosher Food in Prison

Seder plates and kosher meals are so popular behind bars some inmates convert just to get them

By Daniel Genis · January 15, 2019

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Notebook

Match Game

Ep. 165: Director Scott Ellis on working on ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,’ and Pittsburgh matchmaker Tova Weinberg on what men and women really want

By Unorthodox · January 17, 2019
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Observance

Slaughtering With Intent

In this week’s ‘Daf Yomi,’ why a Jew may not sacrifice an animal in such a way that its blood flows into the ocean, and other rules protecting worshippers from the limits of paganism

By Adam Kirsch · January 15, 2019
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Notebook

Crossing the Jordan

A Christian pilgrimage site called Qasr al Yahud has started drawing Jewish visitors, attracted by its biblical history

By Sara Toth Stub · January 15, 2019
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Composting

By Galit Dahan Carlibach

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Middle East

Understanding ‘Nofuzophobia’

The roots and legacy of Iranian resentment of the West, part of a weeklong look at 40 years of the revolution

By Thamar E. Gindin · January 17, 2019
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Middle East

The First Jew I Met in Iran

Face to face with the challenges of living a double life under the Iranian theocracy

By Majid Rafizadeh · January 16, 2019
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Arafat and the Ayatollahs

The PLO’s greatest single contribution to the Iranian Revolution was the formation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, but the Palestinian leader’s involvement with Iran didn’t end there

By Tony Badran · January 16, 2019

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Book Reviews

Writing Her Revolt

In the 40 years after the Iranian Revolution, some women memoirists came to see obedience as the opposite of goodness

By Gina B. Nahai · January 16, 2019
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Culture News

Making It

As Norman Podhoretz turns 89 today, he looks back on the long journey from Brooklyn to Manhattan

By Lee Smith · January 16, 2019
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Music

Guard It With Your Life

How Jewish musicians preserved—and are now saving—Persian music

By Asher Shasho Levy · January 16, 2019