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Middle East

The Enigmatic Benny Gantz

Campaigning to become Israel’s next prime minister, Gantz represents something that Israelis love: a veteran soldier carrying an olive branch

By Elhanan Miller · February 11, 2019
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Notebook

The Myth of the Jewish Nose

It’s not really a thing. So why have the stereotypes persisted for centuries, among Jews and anti-Semites alike?

By Sharrona Pearl · February 8, 2019
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Book Reviews

Message From a Yiddish Werewolf

A 1920s epic poem about fear, and Jewish vulnerability, that could have been about 1944—or 2018

By Dara Horn · January 8, 2019

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Food

True Grits

A cornmeal kugel recipe from the island of Madeira, where the New World met the Old World

By Joan Nathan · February 22, 2019
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Notebook

Seeing Stars

Ep. 170: Getting ready for the Academy Awards with shoe designer Stuart Weitzman, actor Kurt Fuller, and film critic Jordan Hoffman

By Unorthodox · February 21, 2019
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Observance

Parsha in Progress Episode 11: The Golden Calf

Parshat Ki Tisa: What’s so bad about idol worship?

By Parsha in Progress · February 20, 2019
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The Charlie Chaplin of Jewish Death

By Anna Silman

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Middle East

A New Party in Israel Tries to End Bibi’s Reign

Ex-general Gabi Ashkenazi’s appeal to right-wing voters could make the difference in the latest attempt by a center-left coalition to retake Israel’s government

By Lahav Harkov · February 22, 2019
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Middle East

The Only Path to a U.S. Victory in the Middle East Is to Leave Now

American foreign policy is unmoored from American reality

By Lee Smith · February 20, 2019
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United States

We Need to Talk About White Identity Politics

Western societies can either accept moderate forms of ethnic majority politics or risk the current populist uprisings mutating into more extreme versions

By Eric Kaufmann · February 19, 2019

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Fiction and Essays

German Jewish

The origins of a writer’s craft, from an academic-island childhood to the self-control gleaned from a Holocaust-surviving grandparent, by the author of the new novel ‘A Weekend in New York’

By Benjamin Markovits · February 22, 2019
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Fiction and Essays

A Weekend in New York

In an excerpt from the new novel by the London-based writer, going over old stories

By Benjamin Markovits · February 22, 2019
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Culture News

The New Jerusalem Is Crumbling

From the Pilgrim founders to Donald Trump, ‘a belief in the exceptional role of an American nation’

By Bernard-Henri Lévy · February 21, 2019