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Personal History

For One Outspoken Teenager in Revolution-Era Iran, Queen Esther Was a Kindred Spirit

Amid political upheaval, an embattled girl fled entirely alone—the lessons of Purim’s heroine propelling her to freedom

By Sima Goel · March 3, 2015
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Book Reviews

Purim, the Invention of Anti-Semitism, and the Celebration of Jewish Creativity

The Book of Esther represents a turning point in Jewish history: the demonization of the Jews

By Yaakov Elman · March 21, 2016
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United States

How Think Tanks Became Engines of Royal Propaganda

And what their French origins, and their waning and rising relevance to the power structures over the centuries, say about the new Washington

By Jacob Soll · January 31, 2017

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What Happened to Yeshiva University, er… American Jewry?

Look to Israel

By Michael Eisenberg · March 10, 2017
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Q&A: François Ozon

The award-winning French filmmaker on his new World War I drama ‘Frantz’

By Masha Leon · March 10, 2017
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The Chosen Ones: An Interview With Lee Brozgol

The artist and social worker on residing on the Lower East Side, making ‘death head masks,’ and being shielded from anti-Semitism as a kid in Chicago

By Periel Aschenbrand · March 10, 2017
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Trita Parsi’s Accusations Over Kansas Shooting Are the Least of NIAC’s Problems

The National Iranian American Council president co-wrote an article arguing that a small group of people—all of them Jewish—pushed war with Iran and therefore bear some responsibility in a Missouri killing

By Jonathan Zalman · March 10, 2017
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Lessons From Sarajevo’s Jewish Refugees

In 1992 I traveled to Zagreb to help displaced persons fleeing Bosnia and Herzegovina. Years later, I visited Sarajevo and pondered the fragility of freedom.

By Merri Ukraincik · March 10, 2017

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Observance

The Three Faces of Esther

How the story of Purim is told in Christian scripture, and how Martin Luther became Esther’s enemy

By Matthew Abelson · March 10, 2017
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Observance

The Purim Report: Mirth and Melancholy

A holiday filled with cookies, storytelling, and the wisdom of Jackie Mason

By Abigail Pogrebin · March 9, 2017
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Observance

Daf Yomi: ‘Whoever Is Stronger Prevails’

Talmudic rabbis solve territorial disputes by giving the spoils to the victor

By Adam Kirsch · March 7, 2017
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War and Palestine

By Walter Bernstein

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United States

The Counterrevolution

At the end of 50 years of modern liberal revolution, fear of an unknown new order propels authoritarian nationalists with a disheartening message to women and other beneficiaries of social progress

By Paul Berman · March 7, 2017
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World

Inside a Muslim Ghetto

Dispatch from Aung Mingalar, Myanmar, where more than 4,000 Rohingya live separated, just across the road, from the rest of the city

By Joe Freeman · March 6, 2017
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Europe

British Invasion

Episode 80: Leah Green and Freddy McConnell, co-hosts of The Guardian’s ‘Token’ podcast

By Unorthodox · March 2, 2017

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Book Reviews

Bibliomancy, and the Sacred Lottery of the Vilna Gaon

How the technique of chancing upon a passage in a Torah scroll or printed Pentateuch came to be a staple of fortune tellers

By Shraga Bar-On · March 10, 2017
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Film

‘Get Out’ Is Terrifying and—for American Jews, in Particular—Essential

The real monster in Jordan Peele’s brilliant horror film is the toxic strain of liberalism that makes blacks—and Jews—invisible

By Liel Leibovitz · March 10, 2017
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All Aboard

Episode 81: Off the Rails filmmaker Adam Irving and Macy Halford, author of My Utmost: A Devotional Memoir

By Unorthodox · March 9, 2017