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13 August 2022
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Shirley Jaffe at the Centre Pompidou

A retrospective of the painter’s work brings a new appreciation for her apparently random, meticulously planned style

byJoe Fyfe
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi greets Russian President Vladimir Putin before a trilateral meeting on Syria with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Tehran on July 19, 2022
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi greets Russian President Vladimir Putin before a trilateral meeting on Syria with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Tehran on July 19, 2022
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Totalitarians Inc.

Why is Joe Biden alternately ignoring and funding the ever-closer alliance between Iran and Putin?

byEmanuele Ottolenghi
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They Fear Us

A new, scream-filled album from British metal band Ithaca could show you something you’ve been missing

byDavid Meir Grossman
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Tu B’Av Listening

Stories of love and romance from our podcasts

byTablet Podcasts
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They Fear Us

A new, scream-filled album from British metal band Ithaca could show you something you’ve been missing

byDavid Meir Grossman
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Tu B’Av Listening

Stories of love and romance from our podcasts

byTablet Podcasts

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Ep. 328: Abigail Pogrebin on the new installment of ‘The Minyan,’ Allison Josephs on Hollywood’s portrayal of Orthodox Judaism, and a very Unorthodox fundraiser

August 11, 2022

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The Minyan: Orthodox Women
In a roundtable discussion about the state of the American Jewish community, talking about women’s religious and cultural roles, the dangers of social media, and the value of modesty
byAbigail Pogrebin

The alleged prestige of a top degree is not worth the conversion of your son or daughter into an ideological zombie.

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‘What Even Are These Things?’

Collard greens offered me a lesson in survival of the spirit

byMichael Twitty
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The Sanctification of George Soros

How the left stopped worrying about Soros the billionaire and learned to love Soros ‘the Jew’

byJames Kirchick
Some of Arnovitz's found photos
Some of Arnovitz's found photos
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My Counterfeit Israeli Family

A new book by the multimedia artist Andi Arnovitz is an astonishingly original work of Duchampian Zionism

byMorton Landowne
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Rescuing Meena

A year of working with feminists, anti-trafficking experts, academics, ultra-Orthodox rabbis, and military veterans from all over the world to deliver Meena Safi and other Afghan women from the Taliban

byPhyllis Chesler
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Queen of the Night

Rokhl’s Golden City: The troubled family life of Régine—a French singer, disco mogul, and a pioneering disc jockey

byRokhl Kafrissen
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Rescuing Meena

A year of working with feminists, anti-trafficking experts, academics, ultra-Orthodox rabbis, and military veterans from all over the world to deliver Meena Safi and other Afghan women from the Taliban

byPhyllis Chesler
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Queen of the Night

Rokhl’s Golden City: The troubled family life of Régine—a French singer, disco mogul, and a pioneering disc jockey

byRokhl Kafrissen

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Deborah Birx’s Guide to Destroying America

The former White House coronavirus coordinator’s monstrous autobiography explains how lockdowns happened

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War Crimes and Fashion Shoots

Bearing witness to an increasingly brutal and surreal war in Odessa and Mykolayiv

byVladislav Davidzon

Powerful bad people are defeating powerless good people, just as they have for millennia.

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Totalitarians Inc.
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