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Sir Moses Montefiore's residence was demolished in 1954 after it fell into ruin, yet what remains is quite extraordinary, including the financier’s own personal synagogue.
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Steve Jobs was the biological child of a Syrian-born father and a Swiss-American Catholic mother who gave him up for adoption at birth. What could be Jewish about him? Well, more than you mi…
In this postfeminist era, a new breed of Jewish burlesque artists has arrived; they not only bump and grind and celebrate their sexuality but also incorporate their ethnic heritage into thei…
For a semester, Larry N. Mayer, the son of Holocaust survivors, taught secular English classes in an Orthodox school. He shares his adventures " and misadventures.
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Among the Nabis, a group of 19th Century French artists, there were no prominent Jewish neighbors. Yet, somehow they came to adopt their Hebrew-influenced name.
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History has underplayed the role of ordinary German women in the Nazi death machine. Wendy Lower sets the record straight in her disturbing new book, ‘Hitler’s Furies.’
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As Seth Lipsky details in his engaging new biography of Ab Cahan, the battle between universal values and Jewish interests was a constant struggle for the legendary Forward editor.
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Abraham Cahan had been dead for nearly 40 years when Seth Lipsky arrived at the Forward, but his presence was very much alive. Lipsky recalls that presence in his new biography.
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As bagels have spread far and wide, it has become slang for many things. Some stem from the zero that the baked product resembles " and we won’t mention the rest.
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Stanley Kauffmann, recently dubbed ‘one of the oldest working critics in history,’ has died at 97. He brought a uniquely Jewish sensibility to the thumbs up-or-down genre.
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The study of the American Jewish experience is often given short shrift compared to that of the Old Country. But we have plenty of value to tell the world, Jenna Weissman Joselit writes.
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Before he killed John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald lived in the Soviet Union where the people he met were mostly Jews, even if their Jewishness had been warped by the dictatorship.
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Nazi-fighter Christine Granville may or may not have been the inspiration for two James Bond characters. The Jewish spy undeniably led a life worthy of a pulp fiction novel.
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Orly Castel-Bloom’s novel is about an Israeli mother who undergoes cosmetic surgeries in order to avoid thinking about her soldier son. It’s satire but rests on profound realitie…
Do Jews and Christians have a similar approach to charity and the potential upside for doing good? A new book weighs what giving back means to both faiths.
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Theater producer Daryl Roth says that she has not encountered sexism or ageism on the job, though she's faced her share of painful challenges, especially early on in her career.
As Tuvia Tenenbom roams the streets of Jerusalem, he encounters a mystical rabbi " and learns that some sins can be much more expensive than others.
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The Somali terrorists who attacked a mall in Kenya belong to a group called Al-Shabaab. Some see a linguistic link between their name and a word for mischievous Jewish children.
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In a stately memoir, Marianne Szegedy-Maszak painstakingly unearths the saga of her distinguished Hungarian parents and their love story set against the backdrop of wartime.
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Daryl Roth felt ‘very much like the outsider’ growing up Jewish in the suburbs. Now she the hottest producer on Broadway " and set to open ‘A Time To Kill.’
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Memories Light the Corners of Streisand's Old Neighborhood
'Broadway Baby' Traces Ficitonal Account of Author's Mom
