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The Scroll

A Visit to the Barbershop on Lag Ba’Omer

A reporter takes a trip to Lower Manhattan on the day many observant Jews are finally allowed to get a haircut again

By Jesse Bernstein · May 26, 2016
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Fiction and Essays

To the Galilee

A new English translation of fiction by Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon, for Lag Ba’Omer

By S. Y. Agnon · May 6, 2015
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Food

A Frittata That’s Fit for a Picnic

For Lag Ba’Omer, a delicious way to celebrate today’s delicate harmony between Jews and Italians

By Marcia Friedman · May 23, 2016

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Observance

When Does Human Life Begin?

This week’s ‘Daf Yomi’ Talmud study happens to pit contemporary abortion law against Jewish views of conception and viability in all animals

By Adam Kirsch · May 24, 2019
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Family

The Joy of Downsizing

After decades of uneasy homeownership, my wife and I moved into a small apartment and discovered that the Sages were right

By Richard L. Eisenberg · May 24, 2019
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Notebook

Road Tripping

Ep. 182: Children’s book author Judith Viorst on nearing 90 and Louisville-based chef Edward Lee on eating his way across America

By Unorthodox · May 23, 2019
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Curtain Gradient

A Problem With the Sun

By Ben Marcus

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United States

Who Gets to Speak for Mizrahi Jews?

My Iraqi-born Israeli grandparents, or anti-Israel activist Marc Lamont Hill?

By Hen Mazzig · May 24, 2019
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United States

Leave the Holocaust Out of Your Abortion Debate

Don’t desecrate the memory of female survivors while taking away women’s right to choose

By Carly Pildis · May 23, 2019
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Europe

As Ukraine’s New Jewish President Takes Office, Challenges Mount

Volodymyr Zelensky won the election, but can he govern?

By Vladislav Davidzon · May 22, 2019

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Visual Art & Design

A Dance to Spring (For Liberals)

Jules Feiffer’s American Follies: Hope springs eternal

By Jules Feiffer · May 23, 2019
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Culture News

Inside Israel’s Crash-Landing on the Moon

All systems were go. Then the little craft that could went dark. What now for the future of privatized space conquest in the Middle East?

By Armin Rosen · May 22, 2019
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Visual Art & Design

Lucian Freud’s Fat Lady Sings

Flesh, set free by a ‘despicable genius,’ or ensnared in the male gaze?

By Jeremy Sigler · May 21, 2019