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Fast Forward Authors protest ‘banned books’ list in Florida that includes Shabbat picture book
‘Chik Chak Shabbat’ is on a list of titles off-limits to Jacksonville area schools
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Culture Amazon CEO says he’ll still sell that antisemitic movie Kyrie Irving tweeted about
Removing ‘Hebrews to Negroes’ would leave out customers with ‘different viewpoints’
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Culture Fleishman is in trouble — but in this show, so is everyone else
One cat and two human Brooklynites live vicariously through the exploits of FX's morally bereft Upper East Side couple
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Culture Can a bottle opener or perfume bottle pry open an entire Jewish history?
In Richard Rabinowitz's memoir, unremarkable objects conjure up a story of identity and assimilation
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Culture Do ‘bad Jews’ really exist? A new book says no
In 'Bad Jews,' Emily Tamkin recounts decades of Jewish infighting
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Culture Still pining for John McCain, a ‘Big Guy’ seeks to take back his country
In A.M. Homes' novel 'The Unfolding,' the Jewish author imagines a life antithetical to her own
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Culture How simply living as a woman can feel like a preexisting condition
Elissa Bassist's illness memoir is enraging, hysterically funny and very, very Jewish
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Culture Leonard Cohen’s lost novel shows the artist’s surprisingly vulgar and violent side
The songwriter wrote the novel 'A Ballet of Lepers' in his early 20s, but didn't publish it in his lifetime
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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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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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