Aviya Kushner is the Forward’s language columnist and the author of Wolf Lamb Bomb and The Grammar of God. Follow her on Twitter @AviyaKushner.
Aviya Kushner
By Aviya Kushner
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Opinion Hassan Nasrallah was not a ‘towering leader’ — he was a terrorist
Descriptions of the slain Hezbollah leader conveniently leave out the fact that he was responsible for the murders of thousands of civilians
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Culture Why ‘schlub’ seems to be the word of the year
In an election year, a Yiddish word teaches us how to separate the competent from the incompetent
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Culture What Jews and Bill Clinton talk about when they talk about ‘class’
At the DNC, there's been a lot of talk about having 'class' and being part of the 'middle class' — let's not forget to talk about the poor
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Culture They’re celebrating the Olympics in Paris, but the war in the Middle East feels close at hand
Fear and anxiety seem like constants for Jews in the City of Light
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Culture How it feels to leave Israel when an attack is coming and every airline is canceling flights
On El Al out of Tel Aviv, some passengers aren't planning to get anywhere but out
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Culture As Israel braces for attack, ordinary citizens fear that Netanyahu has destroyed a country and a dream
On Tel Aviv's light rail, a woman older than the State of Israel has to depend on the kindness of strangers
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Culture In a Tel Aviv jewelry store, a green necklace tells the story of life in Israel during wartime
These days, a sense of relentless fear underscores even the most seemingly mundane interactions in Israel
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Culture A masterful new Kafka book will bring you closer to the writer than ever before
Mark Harman's new translation of Kafka's stories may just be the best book published this year
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Culture Why saying ‘L’shana Tova’ on Rosh Hashanah may not be the correct phrase
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Culture A Jewish prophet of the 1980s would be horrified to see that we didn’t heed his warnings
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Opinion With killing of Hezbollah’s chief, Israel occupies the inarguable moral high ground
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Opinion This is the most disorienting Rosh Hashanah in memory
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Opinion A year after Oct. 7, Israel has the chance to remake its future — for better or worse
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Opinion Campus protests defined the year since Oct. 7. Could they actually change U.S. policy?
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Special Report At the kibbutz hit hardest on Oct. 7, a wrenching debate over how to rebuild
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