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Visual Art & Design

Master of the True Line

Cynthia Ozick introduces artist Mark Podwal’s new collected works

By Cynthia Ozick · September 8, 2016
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United States

Epidemics of Insanity: Euripides, Mao, and Qutb

How virulent contagions of political fanaticism spread across the globe—or, what the Muslim Brotherhood and its descendants share with The Little Red Book

By Paul Berman · September 20, 2016
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Family

Teaching Kids the Value of Dissent

A new picture book about Ruth Bader Ginsburg explains how a young girl who objected to injustice grew up to become the first Jewish woman on the Supreme Court

By Marjorie Ingall · September 22, 2016

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Remembering Ruth Gruber

The American journalist, humanitarian, and photographer whose images captured the harrowing journey of Jewish immigrants aboard Exodus 1947, has died at the age of 105

By Maya Benton · November 18, 2016
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The Chosen Ones: An Interview With Maira Kalman

The writer and illustrator on celebrating Judaism, the ‘magical place’ that is Tel Aviv, and why it’s essential to have a sense of humor

By Periel Aschenbrand · November 18, 2016
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Baseball Signed by U.S. Spy and Former Major Leaguer Moe Berg Auctions for $17,000

The life of the catcher, polyglot, and OSS/CIA operative will soon get the movie treatment, with actor Paul Rudd playing Berg

By Jonathan Zalman · November 18, 2016
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The Scroll

Anti-Semitism Is Back?

Those of us in the Hasidic community know that it never went away

By Mordechai Lightstone · November 18, 2016
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While the World Is Distracted, the International Criminal Court Is Quietly Bleeding Members

The departure of Russia, South Africa, and others from the supra-national body could have serious implications for Israel and the world

By Armin Rosen · November 17, 2016

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Family

Making Millions on a Roll of the Dice

How a rabbi’s son earned his fortune with Yahtzee—and Bingo

By Marjorie Ingall · November 18, 2016
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Personal History

Praying for Today

Becoming disabled made me question everything I thought I knew about Judaism. Then it brought me back to the religion in a way I’d never thought possible.

By Lev Taylor · November 17, 2016
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Observance

The Coin of the Realm

In this week’s ‘Daf Yomi’ Talmud study, the finer points of monetary transactions, and the attendant honesty ingrained in them

By Adam Kirsch · November 15, 2016
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A Conversation With Mel Brooks

By Ivor Davis

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Middle East

Obama Tries to Pin His Syria Policy on Trump

But the current humanitarian and geopolitical disaster under Assad is the result of specific decisions in the last six years

By Tony Badran · November 17, 2016
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United States

Steve Bannon’s Heart Doesn’t Matter. His Actions Do.

The man tapped to be Donald Trump’s Karl Rove provided the bullhorn for the alt-right, which relentlessly identifies Jews as the champions of the country’s most nefarious forces

By Bari Weiss · November 17, 2016
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A Little on the Nose, History

Recovering from the presidential election and talking to former Rep. Barney Frank about where we go from here

By Unorthodox · November 17, 2016

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Book Reviews

Michael Chabon’s Apollo Mission to the Past

The new Moonglow is a novel in the form of a memoir, a superhero comic in the form of prose, and a paean to the fading Greatest Generation

By Adam Kirsch · November 16, 2016
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Music

The Wisdom of Brokenness in Leonard Cohen’s ‘Come Healing’

Mourning the poet, the troubador, the rabbi

By Elliot R. Wolfson · November 15, 2016
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Culture News

Yaffa Eliach, the Voice of Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust

The pioneering scholar, who died last week at 79, showed American Jewry the way to memory

By Menachem Butler · November 15, 2016