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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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The holy and the broken — getting up after sitting shiva for my dad
Shiva is like a cocoon. But when it ends, you don't emerge a butterfly
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When a Molotov cocktail thrown at your synagogue scrambles your Sunday
There's close to home and then there's home. This latest act of antisemitism felt like the latter.
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What Joshua Malina talks about when he talks about Israel and ‘The West Wing’
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Why this Zionist rabbi has stopped saying the Prayer for the State of Israel
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The Santos story shows the truth matters. And so does journalism.
The Santos saga is a testament both to why journalism matters and to how our much our industry is struggling today
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Would you have dinner with these 125 American Jews?
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Artist Nidaa Badwan escaped repression in Gaza. Now she’s taking on Iran.
'Every part of my body wants to talk about this story,' Badwan said
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As a summer intern in 1998, he 'fell in love with journalism, with beat reporting'
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What I’m grateful for this Thanksgiving, from A to Z
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