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Yitzhak Rabin was killed 30 years ago this week. Has the Jewish world forgotten?

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Philip Roth’s latest biographer wants Jews to read him again — without the guilt

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Saul Rubinek’s new one-man show asks, ‘Is there ever a right time to play Shylock?’

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Sarah Hurwitz wants Diaspora Jews to stop apologizing and reclaim their story

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Greta Thunberg set to be deported from Israel Monday on flight to Athens

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Two years in, some are asking if the war in Gaza is changing Judaism

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Why a historian thinks US Jews are living through a ‘high tide’ of antisemitism

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At NY’s YIVO, a legendary unfinished Yiddish dictionary gets the last word — as opera

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Sam Sussman’s novel turns mystery of whether Bob Dylan is his father into ode to his mother

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Robert Jay Lifton, a pioneering scholar of Nazi doctors and Jewish memory, dies at 99

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25 years after writing ‘Jew vs. Jew,’ Samuel Freedman sees new divisions in US Jewry

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Yosef Blau, author of Orthodox rabbis’ letter critiquing Israel, responds to critics

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Two congregations, two opinions as Torahs hit the floor at separate NYC synagogues

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New album of Yiddish songs casts Israel as ‘evildoer’ in Gaza, with no mention of Oct. 7

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Rabbi Neil Danzig, scholar who unlocked mysteries of the Talmud, dies at 74

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Alan Bergman, Oscar-winning lyricist and ‘father figure’ to Barbra Streisand, dies at 99

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Is the new ‘Superman’ movie about the war in Gaza? Viewers clash over political subtext

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‘Arab Jewish’ actor Ari’el Stachel has a message about antisemitism for Zohran Mamdani

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‘Alligator Auschwitz’: Nickname for new ICE facility renews debate over Nazi comparisons

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Between COVID, Oct. 7 and Iran, how much can Israelis take? A trauma expert finds out

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Marthe Cohn, Holocaust survivor and nurse who spied for the French, dies at 105

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Conservative flagship’s 1st woman chancellor, Shuly Rubin Schwartz, to step down in 2026

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These therapists put a name to the dismissal of Jewish distress after Oct. 7

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Leonard Lauder, who expanded family’s business into cosmetics empire, dies at 92

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Aaron Lansky built a home for 1.5 million Yiddish books. Now he’s handing over the keys

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Some pro-Israel advocates are now using words like ‘genocide’ to describe the Gaza war

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At US campus symposium, billionaire Bill Ackman solitarily defends Trump’s Harvard feud

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‘Dry Bones’ cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen sketched Israeli feats and foibles for 50 years

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David Horowitz, radical American leftist turned right-wing firebrand, dies at 86

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Nike apologizes after causing uproar with ‘Never Again. Until Next Year’ marathon ad

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Jewish Federations CEO privately opposed letter against arrests of campus activists

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Larry David skewers Bill Maher’s sit-down with Trump in NYT essay

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Two friends defied the Nazis. Then one woman ‘wrote’ a book that betrayed the other

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Sen. Ron Wyden says the Democrats need ‘chutzpah’ to return to power

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Young journalist’s accounts of Oct. 7 assault named Jewish book of the year

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