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Zion-on-Niagara

Decades before the rise of Zionism, 19th-century American playwright and diplomat Mordecai Manuel Noah envisioned a refuge for European Jews—on an island near Buffalo

By Jenna Weissman Joselit · November 5, 2018
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Meyer and Sid

The great NFL quarterback Sid Luckman, who would have turned 102 today, had a secret: his father’s ties to the Jewish mob

By Rich Cohen · November 20, 2018
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New York’s Yiddish Press Is Thriving

‘Der Yid,’ ‘Der Veker,’ ‘Di Tzeitung,’ ‘Der Blatt,’ ‘Maalos,’ ‘Moment,’ ‘Der Shtern,’ ‘Di Vokh,’ ‘Der Blik,’ and ‘Der Blitz’ all fill niches of Hasidic readership

By Rose Waldman · December 4, 2018

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The Belgian Falafel Waffle

An edible miracle of modern science takes off in Rishon LeZion

By Flora Tsapovsky · December 18, 2018
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Lenny Dykstra, Torah Student

The ex-major leaguer is studying alongside a Chabad rabbi as he embarks on a ‘spiritual journey’

By The Scroll · December 18, 2018
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And Then They Came for Cornelia

A final evening of talk and tipple with the owner of a Greenwich Village institution driven out of business by rising rents, before another bit of old New York bites the dust

By Alex Brook Lynn · December 18, 2018
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The New York Times Just Published an Unqualified Recommendation for an Insanely Anti-Semitic Book

The book, recommended by author Alice Walker, repeatedly cites the ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion,’ dubs the Talmud ‘among the most appallingly racist documents on the planet,’ and says Jews funded the Holocaust and control the KKK

By Yair Rosenberg · December 17, 2018
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Taking the Swastikas out of High School Musicals

Why censoring Nazi imagery in student theater isn’t good for anyone

By Marjorie Ingall · December 17, 2018

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Song of Passaic

In my New Jersey town, Torah comes before bread

By Alter Yisrael Shimon Feuerman · December 18, 2018
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Observance

Natural Causes

In this week’s ‘Daf Yomi,’ intentionality and human agency remain at the heart of Jewish law. Plus: the difference between a pagan and a heretic.

By Adam Kirsch · December 18, 2018
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Food

Whiskey Takes Off in Israel

As the drink has gained popularity, distilleries have created a new whiskey scene—one with a distinctly Israeli flavor

By Sara Toth Stub · December 17, 2018
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Mr. Siegel

By Bruce Jay Friedman

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Middle East

The Curtain Is Falling on Bibi’s Lebanese Belly Dance

What lies beneath seven years of Israeli rhetoric about Iran?

By Tony Badran · December 13, 2018
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United States

Is the Women’s March Melting Down?

Millions of women mobilized against gender inequality and the election of Donald Trump in 2016. But only four of them ended up at the top—and the consequences have been enormous.

By Leah McSweeney and Jacob Siegel · December 10, 2018
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CUNY’s Anti-Semitism Problem and the Campaign to Fire Michael Goldstein

Is a Kingsborough Community College professor a racist or a victim of ‘academic mobbing’?

By Armin Rosen · December 9, 2018

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Not Jewish: Shaving

Why ‘smooth as a baby’s bottom’ rarely applies to Jewish men’s faces

By Gary Shteyngart · December 17, 2018
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Film

The Esthers: Top 10 Jewish Films of 2018

World War II, the Cold War, American racism, Polish introspection, and Jerry Lewis

By J. Hoberman · December 14, 2018
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Jules Feiffer’s American Follies

Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump

By Jules Feiffer · December 14, 2018