On a plane ride to Israel, an academic, feeling alone, enters into a conversation with a professor of Talmud who encourages her to seek answers in Jerusalem

The first Ethiopian-born Jew to become Miss Israel on racism, paying it forward, and Israel’s power to unite different groups of people

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Election Got You Bummed Out? Stressed? Play Some Chess

Let the game of kings provide you with an ancient, soothing remedy: a deep and intimate engagement with people

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A Beloved Jewish Mural Is Whitewashed, and the Lower East Side Mourns

Residents of a storied Jewish neighborhood in New York City are furious after a developer failed to inform the community of its plans to erase a historic mural

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Goodbye, Leonard

The poet’s greatest talent was his gift for healing

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Epitaph for a Bronx Accent

My uncle was one of the last speakers of a language that once united a borough’s Jews

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A Time To Mourn Without a Place to Pray

When I wanted to say kaddish for my mother, I found that my options as a woman were limited—and less than welcoming

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Picking Mushrooms in America: A Jewish Immigrant Tradition

Every fall, Russian Jewish families go foraging for culinary treasure on Cape Cod

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Want to Understand the Futile Rage of Trump’s Supporters? Consider the Palestinians.

In the midwest and the Middle East alike, cultures that favor outrage over outcome never get very far

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Taking Dictation From a Dictator

Tablet Annotates the News: How Syria’s Assad played the U.S. media

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Super Tuesday

A special Election Day episode featuring ‘Washington Post’ reporter Bob Woodward, ‘National Review’ editor Eliana Johnson, Tablet columnist Jamie Kirchick, and a Democrat in Boca

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At Home in History, and Nowhere Else

Saul Friedländer’s ‘small masterpiece in the literature of the Holocaust’

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The God of Manga’s Jewish Masterpieces

On Osamu Tezuka’s 88th birthday, a look at the many ways the Japanese master told Jewish stories, and influenced the Jewish storytellers of America’s own comics boom

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The Lost and the Saved

A photographic journey in search of an Israeli family she never knew she had