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Toy story: From teddy bears to Tiddlywinks, how Jews helped shape American childhood

Toy story: From teddy bears to Tiddlywinks, how Jews helped shape American childhood

New book ‘Playmakers’ by sociologist Michael Kimmel looks at how children of Jewish immigrants built the dolls, games, books and comics that...

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Rich Tenorio

Did medieval Jews hide a ‘secret synagogue’ in tarot cards? Boston exhibit turns over clues

‘Torah in the Tarot,’ named for researcher Stav Appel’s book of the same name, runs through June at the Vilna Shul, makes claim the deck was...

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From child laborer to union leader: Too-relevant story of 20th-century immigrant Pauline Newman

In ‘For the Love of Labor,’ ToI contributor Cathryn J. Prince follows the Lithuanian-born labor activist who blazed trails fighting sexism and...

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Was Henri Matisse’s sojourn in Vichy France de facto collaboration or quiet resistance?

In his new book ‘Matisse at War,’ Christopher C. Gorham explores the renowned artist’s troubled but prolific life under the Nazis during WWII,...

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How an upstart rabbi was excommunicated over his Haggadah for a ‘new US Judaism’

Mordecai Kaplan’s vision of a unified, reconstructed religion for American Jews was plagued by backlash but launched a new denomination. Now he’s...

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New drama tells true story of Holocaust survivor who helps scores of troubled teens

In US theaters March 11, ‘The Optimist’ portrays how big-hearted toy store owner Herbert Heller came to open up about his experiences – and how...

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Did the founder of Hadassah – Israel’s ‘mother’ – support a one-state solution?

In her biography, ‘Henrietta Szold: Hadassah and the Zionist Dream,’ author Francine Klagsbrun shows how the acclaimed activist fought against...

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New PBS series examines bittersweet ties that have historically bound US Blacks and Jews

For Black History Month, docuseries ‘Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History’ parses what has unified and divided the communities,...

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Minnesota governor invokes Anne Frank while decrying ICE, drawing rebuke from US Holocaust Museum

Without naming Walz, museum notes Anne Frank ‘was murdered solely because she was Jewish,’ says ‘false equivalencies to her...

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New documentary reveals saga behind Elie Wiesel’s world-famous Holocaust memoir

In ‘Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire,’ airing on PBS in the US on January 27, filmmaker Oren Rudavsky examines the Nobel laureate through his...

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New documentary depicts the lawsuit that humbled Henry Ford – and revved up US Jewry

After its world premiere at the Miami Jewish Film Festival on Sunday, ‘Sapiro v. Ford’ is available to stream via the festival’s...

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Two long-time negotiators dissect what’s at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

In new book ‘Tomorrow is Yesterday,’ Jewish US diplomat Robert Malley and veteran Palestinian negotiator Hussein Agha team up to look at...

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How ‘Natural Woman’ Carole King defied societal expectations to achieve pop stardom

Former Forward editor Jane Eisner’s new biography tracks the Jewish artist from her native NYC to California, where she recorded hit album...

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Slain journalist Daniel Pearl’s father charts recent ‘Zionophobia’ rise in new book

In ‘Coexistence and Other Fighting Words,’ Judea Pearl tracks post-Oct. 7 denial of Jewish self-determination, defending Israel on...

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Let Jean Meltzer’s new Hanukkah-themed romance put the spark in your Festival of Lights

The American Jewish author and onetime rabbinical student adds to the winter holiday canon with ‘The Eight Heartbreaks of Hanukkah,’ the...

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Trump declares all orders signed by autopen under Biden ‘terminated’

Legal commentator says president has right to revoke executive orders but nothing else

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Lone Star of David: How a short-lived plan saw persecuted European Jews reroot in Texas

In her new book ‘Melting Point,’ Rachel Cockerell chronicles her ancestors’ involvement in an obscure movement – exclusively...

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Astronomer Avi Loeb warns world not to ignore new comet’s potential alien threat

Israel-born Harvard scientist, no stranger to controversy, has asked Kim Kardashian to join his research team after the celeb got some answers about...

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French film ‘Auction’ revisits thrilling tussle over real-life Nazi-looted masterpiece

In US theaters Oct. 29, Jewish director Pascal Bonitzer’s latest feature centers on a $21 million painting by Egon Schiele that went missing in...

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New film revives little-known legacy of Mormon teen executed for opposing Hitler

Now in theaters, ‘Truth and Treason’ tells the story of Helmuth Hubener, a German whose religious convictions inspired him to speak truth...

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Skewering antisemites and sexists, a chess queen recounts her journey to the top

In new memoir, ‘Rebel Queen,’ Hungarian Jewish grandmaster Susan Polgar details attacking the forces that tried, and failed, to put her in...

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What do the Third Temple movement and Noahide laws have in common? A far-right vision

In her new book ‘Messianic Zionism in the Digital Age,’ Rachel Z. Feldman documents a growing fringe movement to hasten the...

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Sex, drugs and anti-Zionism fuel this new woke novel about a Jewish summer camp experience

In ‘Lake Burntshore,’ far-left Jewish-Canadian author Aaron Kreuter explores the increasing Israel dissonance felt by North American...

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18 Jewish therapists co-wrote a book on the trauma of displacement. Then came Oct. 7

In ‘Sitting on a Suitcase: Psychoanalytic Stories,’ diverse clinicians discuss treating patients while juggling their own generational...

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Ideals and hearts break in this real-life Romeo and Juliet story set in Mandate Palestine

In US theaters today, ‘Shoshana’ portrays true romance between a Haganah member and the British officer tasked with arresting rebels like...

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How Hannah Arendt faced down tyranny in the US, far from Eichmann’s Jerusalem trial

New documentary airing June 27 in the US on PBS explores how the Jewish writer and activist brought lessons from WWII Germany to McCarthy-era America...

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With echoes of Book of Ruth, author chronicles 7 women’s remarkable journeys to faith

This Shavuot, read Kelsey Osgood’s ‘Godstruck,’ a reflection on her own unexpected Orthodox conversion to Judaism as well as the conversions of...

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