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Visual Art & Design

Soon There Will Be No More Survivors

Watch this presentation: We say people must remember the Holocaust in the future, but we’re ignoring its victims today.

By Matthew Fishbane · January 27, 2014
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Family

Life and Death, Side by Side

How does it feel to live next to a concentration camp? I visited the Polish village next to Majdanek—where my great-grandfather was murdered, and my grandparents were imprisoned—to find out.

By Noah Lederman · January 27, 2017
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Historic Cemeteries in Ruin

Jewish graveyards in Eastern Europe are crumbling, neglected, and vandalized. Who will be responsible for protecting them—and their communities’ history?

By Suzanne Selengut · January 27, 2017

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2019’s Best Holocaust Books for Kids

In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, recent titles that are worth a read

By Marjorie Ingall · January 24, 2020
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Cut Gems

How Jews brought diamonds from South Africa to Amsterdam to midtown Manhattan

By Jenna Weissman Joselit · January 23, 2020
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Speak Your Mind

Ep. 212: ‘I Wanted Fries With That’ author Amy Fish on how to complain more effectively, and Carolyn Karcher on ‘Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism’

By Unorthodox · January 23, 2020
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The Perils of Forgetting

By Alvin Rosenfeld

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Naftali Bennett Makes a Stand

Israel’s defense minister showed politicians everywhere how to respond to racism in their ranks

By David Zenlea · January 24, 2020
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United States

Coming to Jesus

How a shocking family discovery and some time spent at a hospice run by nuns led one Jewish man to reconsider Christ

By Harold Braswell · January 22, 2020
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Europe

Reclaiming Jewish Life After the Nightmare of Communism

How Jews in Prague and Sofia overthrew their troubled communal leadership with the crumbling of the Soviet bloc

 

By Edward Serotta · January 21, 2020

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And Statistics

Jules Feiffer’s American Follies turns 91!

By Jules Feiffer · January 24, 2020
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Book Reviews

The Zionist X-Ray

How a secure Israel brought out the best—and worst—of political Arab men of letters

By Peter Theroux · January 23, 2020
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Adonis in Jerusalem

A Syrian-born poet resembles Arab literary men of the ancient past

By Paul Berman · January 22, 2020