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A gift shop at Auschwitz? New films and a graphic memoir explore the contradictions of ‘dark tourism’

A gift shop at Auschwitz? New films and a graphic memoir explore the contradictions of ‘dark tourism’
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Andrew Silow-Carroll

Why everyone is quoting Hannah Arendt, sometimes even accurately

Why everyone is quoting Hannah Arendt, sometimes even accurately
19.01.2025 5

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What an obituary writer learned by saying goodbye to hundreds of people

What an obituary writer learned by saying goodbye to hundreds of people

In June, the writer Lore Segal, who had started hospice at her home in Manhattan, sent an email to her friends. “I am not sad or angry or afraid,”...

08.01.2025 2

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The Lower East Side anti-Jewish riot that changed the way Jews do politics

You might be forgiven for never having heard of the worst anti-Jewish riot in American history. It happened on the Lower East Side over a century...

05.01.2025 20

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The world after Oct. 7, and before Trump 2.0: The essential Jewish conversations of 2024

The trauma of Oct. 7 and the war that has raged since dominated the thoughts of Jewish opinion writers in 2024, and the essays JTA published in its...

31.12.2024 2

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What David Brooks and Bob Dylan teach Jews about heresy

“A Complete Unknown,” the new Bob Dylan biopic set in the early 1960s, ends years before the singer’s controversial “gospel” period....

27.12.2024 3

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What’s everybody reading? Readers suggest the defining Jewish books of the 21st century

Last December, in a column about the Jewish books of 2023 , I predicted that “next year’s list will include a slew of books dealing with the...

22.12.2024 5

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Amid war and an election, the Jewish mainstream bends to the right

As head of the nonprofit Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law , Kenneth Marcus was early — critics would say premature — in using...

15.12.2024 10

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What the co-chair of Columbia University’s antisemitism task force says people get wrong about the campus protests

In October of 2023, weeks after the Hamas attacks on Israel, Columbia University’s brand-new president, Minouche Shafik, asked Nicholas Lemann,...

08.12.2024 7

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Three new books capture an era when Jews were (literally) on the same page 

In the 1970s, my parents and all the Jewish parents I knew had what I came to call the Jewish Bookshelf. On it sat “The Source” by James Michener,...

01.12.2024 10

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Allergic to ‘God-talk’? The former head of a rabbinical seminary wants a word.

A fter stepping down as chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary in the spring of 2020, Arnold Eisen found himself with the time and...

24.11.2024 3

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A Black artist and a Jewish artist mock the KKK in a new Jewish Museum show

Mel Brooks, who mocked Adolf Hitler in his 1967 black comedy “The Producers,” has always made the case for satire as a weapon against tyranny....

17.11.2024 5

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We asked Jewish leaders about their priorities under a second Trump term 

The leader of one Jewish nonprofit described Donald Trump’s return to the presidency as “terrifying.” Another called it a “serious setback.”...

10.11.2024 10

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Meet two rabbis who are trying to fight ‘toxic polarization’ — one Jewish text at a time

Last month, clergy from 15 faith communities in Northern Virginia — Jewish, Evangelical, Mainline Protestant and Muslim — gathered at a local park...

03.11.2024 2

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In closing campaign arguments, Jewish partisans articulate Jewish fears

“Turn your anxiety into action.”  The phrase — which if not a translation of a Yiddish expression might as well be — was the message of an...

27.10.2024 9

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From snoot to tail, a 3,000-year history of Jews and the pig

In 2021, the Orthodox Union declined to put its kosher certification on Impossible Pork, even though similarly vegan “Impossible” foods — its...

13.10.2024 20

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One year after Oct. 7, a Yom Kippur ritual of communal mourning takes on fresh meaning

In 2001, Yom Kippur fell on Sept. 26, two weeks after the terror attacks that brought down the World Trade Center. By then, the major denominations...

07.10.2024 2

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How a 1929 massacre of Jews in Hebron foreshadowed Oct. 7

Before Oct. 7, there was Aug. 24.    On that date in 1929, “3,000 Muslim men armed with swords, axes, and daggers marched through the Jewish...

29.09.2024 2

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Why writer Etgar Keret wants to get back to Israel as soon as he can

When I spoke on Thursday to the Israeli writer Etgar Keret, who was in New York as part of a two-week speaking tour, he described himself as “...

22.09.2024 4

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A NYC conference celebrates the cultural creativity of formerly Orthodox Jews

A haredi, or ultra-Orthodox, leader once joked to me that “few people leave Orthodoxy, but every one of them writes a book about it.” It was a...

12.09.2024 3

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The progressive Jewish author whose book event was canceled has tough words for both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian debate

Joshua Leifer suspected that his new book about the history of American Jewish identity might challenge some on the pro-Palestinian left, but he...

02.09.2024 4

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Andrew Silow-Carroll

The progressive Jewish author whose book event was canceled has tough words for both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian debate

Joshua Leifer suspected that his new book about the history of American Jewish identity might challenge some on the pro-Palestinian left, but he...

01.09.2024 10

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A literary critic on why the ‘settler colonial’ framing is bad for Israel and Palestine

Like many Jews after the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, Adam Kirsch was stunned by the number of activists and intellectuals who celebrated the...

25.08.2024 8

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Ross Perlin writes a love letter to New York — in Yiddish and 699 other languages

Years before “The Power Broker” started appearing on the shelves of every journalist giving a Zoom interview , I would enlighten (my wife would...

14.08.2024 6

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At 91, Rabbi Yitz Greenberg writes the ‘big book’ his admirers had been waiting for 

In the late 1990s, I would joke that my family and I lived on “Planet Yitz.”  Our children attended SAR Academy , the co-ed, educationally...

11.08.2024 30

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A historian describes the lessons learned — and ignored — from Hitler’s rise to power

“It has been said that the Weimar Republic died twice,” Timothy Ryback writes. “It was murdered, and it committed suicide.” In his new book,...

31.07.2024 10

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Why Jews are excited — and nervous — about having so many Jews in the Democratic ticket mix

In a 1974 novel by the Jewish writer Wallace Markfield, a character quips, “The time is at hand when the wearing of prayer shawl and skullcap will...

26.07.2024 10

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A museum exhibit on Jewish food and humor puts the ‘borscht’ in Borscht Belt

“We honeymooned at Kutsher’s in late October 1968,” Barbara Gelman recalled in an oral history for the Borscht Belt Museum in 2019. “When we...

21.07.2024 30

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