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What I learned from my father’s strange journey from Poland to Algeria, Kazakhstan and the California desert

By the time I was 76, I thought I knew my father well. He had been an open person who had spoken about his life and hadn’t avoided (as many of my...

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The Jewish Week

Dvora Treisman

A Black artist and a Jewish artist mock the KKK in a new Jewish Museum show

Mel Brooks, who mocked Adolf Hitler in his 1967 black comedy “The Producers,” has always made the case for satire as a weapon against tyranny....

17.11.2024 2

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Andrew Silow-Carroll

I research disappearing small-town Jewish communities. I’m finding the best of America.

Growing up in Lancaster, Ohio, I remember discovering a book in the local library that ultimately helped to change how I viewed my hometown’s...

15.11.2024 9

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Austin Reid

My survivor parents taught me to loathe Germany. Was I ready to forgive?

My mother was a Holocaust survivor and my father left Germany in the mid-1930s, when Hitler was coming into power. I grew up in the Washington...

13.11.2024 2

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Stewart Florsheim

We asked Jewish leaders about their priorities under a second Trump term 

The leader of one Jewish nonprofit described Donald Trump’s return to the presidency as “terrifying.” Another called it a “serious setback.”...

10.11.2024 7

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Andrew Silow-Carroll

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