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How one Israeli artists brings Shabbat flowers to thousands every week
'I sketch all the time, I paint all the time,' Reuven Dattner said.
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Thinking about democracy in progress as Israel turns 75
An 'incredible divide' over what the country means — and real doubt about whether it will survive intact
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‘You don’t have to look to the sky’ to see a superhero
Readers told us who their superheroes are, plus watch our conversation with Etgar Keret
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She demanded girl superheroes. Then she became one.
For decades, I kept a column published in the Los Angeles Times . I finally spoke to the woman who wrote it
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What makes The Best Minds a Jewish book?
In Jonathan Rosen's new book about mental health and friendship, he compares his relationship with Michael Laudor to Cain and Abel
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What I learned saying kaddish at a Ramadan break-fast
Out of all the places I've said kaddish, online and in-person, this was one of the more meaningful
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We need to stop singing the same song about Israel — or it’s not going to be OK
Israeli Jews — and the Americans who support them — have been singing the same song for too long
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You say matzah, we spell matzo, let’s talk the whole thing out
'Matzo’ may seem old-fashioned, but it has a surprising amount of sticking power, and not just to your gut.
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How a pair of Sunday school teachers inspired Craig Newmark to give his money away
'They taught me the substance of Judaism,' said Newmark, founder of craigslist. 'They basically set my moral compass.'
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What should American Jews do about the assault on Israeli democracy?
'When someone you love is in trouble,' said Yossi Klein Halevi, 'you don't pull away, you draw closer'
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Where Anne Frank met Marilyn Monroe & Elvis — in our new podcast
In Playing Anne Frank , Adam Langer shows the many reverberations of Anne Frank's story in history and culture
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Culture Why saying ‘L’shana Tova’ on Rosh Hashanah may not be the correct phrase
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Opinion With killing of Hezbollah’s chief, Israel occupies the inarguable moral high ground
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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 This is the most disorienting Rosh Hashanah in memory
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Film & TV How Leonard Cohen — and a Yom Kippur prayer — inspired a coming-of-age epic
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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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