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  • Palestinian demonstrator protests with ''free speech'' written on her arms as Northwestern, Rutgers, and UCLA Presidents to testify before the committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, United States on May 23, 2024.
    Palestinian demonstrator protests with ''free speech'' written on her arms as Northwestern, Rutgers, and UCLA Presidents to testify before the committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, United States on May 23, 2024.
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    Why I Left My Faculty Position at Rutgers

    And moved to Yeshiva University

    byRebecca Cypess
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    Whitman and the American Revelation

    The epiphany that led to a national literature’s single greatest achievement: tucked in a prosaic, newly discovered early novel are the seeds of ‘Leaves of Grass’

    byPaul Berman
  • Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill
    Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill
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    Was Alexander Hamilton Jewish? A Cambridge-Educated Historian Is Making the Case.

    Dr. Andrew Porwancher’s argument will be laid out in full in a Harvard University Press book, currently under contract

    byMorton Landowne
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    Louis Brandeis: The Jewish Boy From Kentucky Who Became a Supreme Court Legend

    A new biography examines the ground-breaking cases, comportment, and all-around genius of the country’s first Jewish justice

    byJewish Lives (Sponsored)
  • An 1841 illustration by Robert Cruikshank depicts the crowd in front of the White House during Andrew Jackson's first inaugural reception in 1829.
    An 1841 illustration by Robert Cruikshank depicts the crowd in front of the White House during Andrew Jackson's first inaugural reception in 1829.
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    Democracy and Its Tens and Twenties

    Do not remove Andrew Jackson’s face from the $20 bill. It reminds us that democracy has always been a struggle against aristocracy and special privilege.

    byPaul Berman
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    Which Jewish Woman Should Grace the New $10 Bill?

    The U.S. Treasury has announced a redesign of the sawbuck

    byGabriela Geselowitz
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    Alexander Hamilton’s Jewish Connection

    Revisiting the Founding Father’s Jewish day school days in the West Indies

    byGabriela Geselowitz
  • Clockwise from top right: Presidents John Adams, George Washington, Ulysses Grant, James Madison, Calvin Coolidge, John Quincy Adams, and Harry Truman.(Collage Tablet Magazine; original images, clockwise from top right, via Wikimedia Commons, Library of Congress, Wikimedia Commons, and Library of Congress)
    Clockwise from top right: Presidents John Adams, George Washington, Ulysses Grant, James Madison, Calvin Coolidge, John Quincy Adams, and Harry Truman.(Collage Tablet Magazine; original images, clockwise from top right, via Wikimedia Commons, Library of Congress, Wikimedia Commons, and Library of Congress)
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    Obama’s Historical Chutzpah

    Does the president really know more about Judaism than John Adams and James Madison did?

    byCharles C. Johnson
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