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Europe

Weimar Germany and Donald Trump

How traditional and radical conservatives come to speak a common political language—that ultimately benefits the extremists

By Eric D. Weitz · July 18, 2016
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Music

How an American Jewish Opera Star Accidentally Launched the Soviet Jewish Movement

The 60th anniversary of Jan Peerce’s landmark Cold War Moscow show, where a final encore pointed the way to deliverance

By James Loeffler · June 30, 2016
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Personal History

God of the Poconos

Finding religion at sleepaway camp

By Elissa Altman · June 22, 2016

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Actually, Rosa Luxemburg Was Not a Self-Hating Jew

Contrary to what is widely believed, the Polish-Jewish anti-war activist was first and foremost a humanist, and both a victim and active opponent of anti-Semitism

By Rory Castle Jones · August 26, 2016
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New Poll of Jewish Voters in Florida Finds Trump Losing to Clinton by a Whopping 43 Points

Most Jews traditionally vote Democratic, but these results suggest Trump may lose the voting segment by even greater margins than past Republican candidates

By Yair Rosenberg · August 26, 2016
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Are We There Yet? Road Trip Games With a Jewish Spin

OK, kids. Let’s play, ‘Tell me how each cow reminds you of Bubbe!’

By Marjorie Ingall · August 26, 2016
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The Chosen Ones: An Interview With Gaby Basora

The New York-based fashion designer and proud mom talks about sharing with grace, ‘Jewish salsa,’ and the advice her 99-year-old grandmother gave her the day her studio burnt down

By Periel Aschenbrand · August 26, 2016
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Trump Sets Up Shop in Israel

There are an estimated 400,000 registered American voters in Israel, and Trump is likely to win a majority of them—especially in the West Bank

By Armin Rosen · August 26, 2016

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Family

Good-Enough Mothers

Two authors—best friends since BCE (before the child era)—talk about parenting and the pressure to be perfect

By Marjorie Ingall and Gayle Forman · August 29, 2016
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Family

Teaching Kids About ‘Tikkun Olam’

In an excerpt from ‘Mamaleh Knows Best,’ tips for turning your children into mensches

By Marjorie Ingall · August 29, 2016
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Observance

Dear Social Justice Warriors: Your Religion Is Progressivism, Not Judaism

It’s time to stop pretending our politics and our theology are one and the same

By Liel Leibovitz · August 26, 2016
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Some Notes on My Father’s Cousin, Joseph Roth

By Barbara Probst Solomon

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World

The Manila Poker Group That Rescued German Jews

Little-known efforts led to the Philippines saving over 1,300 German and Austrian Jews from 1938 to 1939

By Robert Rockaway and Maya Guez · August 26, 2016
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United States

Will Donald Trump’s Data-Analytics Company Allow Russia to Access Research on U.S. Citizens?

Tracing the suspicious-looking, and messy, ties between a Ukrainian oligarch, an elections-information firm, and the GOP candidate’s former campaign manager

By Ann Marlowe · August 22, 2016
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United States

The Problem Isn’t Black Lives Matter. It’s the Occupation.

How Jewish criticism of the rights group reflects our own moral confusion about the last 50 years of Israeli politics

By Daniel May · August 15, 2016

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Book Reviews

Yuval Levin Isn’t Dumb

The new anti-government handbook ‘The Fractured Republic’ confuses a fantasized past for a utopian future

By Todd Gitlin · August 25, 2016
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Film

Killing Reinhard Heydrich

The harrowing new film ‘Anthropoid’ analyzes the cost-benefit equation of the only successful assassination of a Nazi leader in World War II

By James Kirchick · August 24, 2016
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Book Reviews

Is It Time to Take the Most-Published Man in Human History Seriously?

A new biography of Jacob Neusner examines his ‘complicated, colorful, and unappreciated intellectual life’

By Shaul Magid · August 23, 2016