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Culture A mural of the Simpsons as Holocaust victims should be offensive. It’s actually a stroke of genius
Muralist aleXsandro Palombo's use of ubiquitous cartoon characters startles viewers out of preconceived notions about the Holocaust
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Culture How Isaac Bashevis Singer’s translator edits without editing
David Stromberg, the Yiddishist behind a new collection of the Nobel Prize winner's essays for the Forward, talks about the challenges of bringing his work to a modern audience
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Fast Forward Ben Stern, Holocaust survivor who stood up to neo-Nazis in Skokie, dies at 102
The survivor of two death marches often signed his name with 129592, the concentration camp number tattooed on his arm
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Fast Forward Holocaust education bill fails in Washington State after debate over Jewish refugees, genocide and the Gaza war
A Republican lawmaker feared the Democratic-led amendment would open the door to 'overlap the Holocaust with what’s happening in Gaza'
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Theater In a Romeo-and-Juliet musical set in WWII Shanghai, Chinese and Jewish refugees are star-crossed lovers
'Émigré,' a new production by the New York Philharmonic, recalls the city's embrace of over 20,000 people fleeing the Holocaust
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Forverts in English The Holocaust survivor in the typewriter repair shop
It wasn’t the sad smile or the stained apron that made me remember him so well. It was the tattoo on his forearm.
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Fast Forward Israel bars Brazilian president after Lula compares Gaza war to the Holocaust
“When he compares things that are incomparable, we realize that this is done extemporaneously,” said the head of Brazil’s main Jewish organization about Lula
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Culture A Polish ‘countess’ saved thousands of concentration camp prisoners from the Nazis. No one knew she was a Jew.
A new book tells Janina Mehlberg’s story, after three custodians of her memoirs died without seeing them published
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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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