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Americana meets meshuggeneh at a museum exhibit about MAD magazine

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Bill Pascrell, NJ congressman who played balancing act on Israel, dies at 87

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

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US Jews excited, and anxious, about potential representation on Democratic ticket

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Peter Buxtun, who blew whistle on cruel US medical study on Black men, dies at 86

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Mordechai Rosenstein, illuminating Jewish calligrapher, dies at 90 in Pennsylvania

Unique brightly colored works that featured stretched out and manipulated Hebrew letters are displayed in countless homes and synagogues around the...

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In the 1940s, Jewish scholars planned a museum about the world they were losing

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Morrie Markoff, Jewish supercentenarian and oldest man in US, dies at 110

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How the phrase ‘Bring them home’ became a Rorschach test for Israeli and American Jews

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A Palestinian-American’s call for compromise strikes a chord on social media

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Rabbi who arranged wife’s murder to pursue affair dies in New Jersey prison at 82

Fred Neulander, founder of Reform M’kor Shalom congregation in Cherry Hill, avoided arrest for almost four years after hiring two hitmen to kill...

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Amy Ettinger, writer of life-affirming essays on dying, succumbs to cancer at 49

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Martin Greenfield, Auschwitz survivor and master tailor to US presidents, dies at 95

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Comedian Richard Lewis, dark prince of Jewish neurosis, dies at 76

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German synagogue attacker gets 7 more years for taking hostages in failed jailbreak

Far-right extremist already serving life sentence for attempt to break into a synagogue on Yom Kippur in 2019 that he broadcast online before killing...

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Shelly Weiss, Brooklyn ‘queer icon’ and progressive Jewish activist, dies at 77

Weiss put aside her career in social work and health administration to found and promote multiple organizations supporting the LGBTQ community

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Nina Gottlieb, Holocaust survivor featured in award-winning documentary, dies at 91

Polish native was born 7 years before Nazi invasion; her immediate family was sent to Warsaw ghetto and survived, in part based on father’s ability...

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Lawrence Langer, renowned scholar of Holocaust testimony, dies at 94

Analyzing what the words of survivors themselves said about the genocide, Langer, who won numerous awards for his work, argued against excessive...

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In dark times, is a dystopian Jewish novel just what we need?

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Paul Berg, world’s oldest Jewish person and 9th-oldest overall, dies at 114

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Critic’s account of classical music after the Holocaust named Jewish book of the year

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What is antisemitism? At a US conference, scholars use archives as a guide and warning

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Rabbi David Ellenson, former head of Reform seminary and admired mentor, dies at 76

Renown historian, adviser and confidant, who served as president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion for 12 years, passes away of...

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