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Bintel Brief I was offended by a Dungeons & Dragons scenario. Should I quit the people I play with?
‘A Bintel Brief’ advises a high schooler questioning friends who had her roleplay an ICE raid
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Opinion The San Antonio migrant deaths should remind Jews: We were once smuggled in, too
‘Plenty of people killed, nobody knows about it, but God and the water’
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Opinion No Jew should have to starve for Israeli citizenship. But I did
For eight days, I camped outside of Israel’s Ministry of the Interior on a hunger strike, protesting the injustice I have suffered at the hands of the Israeli state during my nearly 4-year journey toward citizenship. It was under 40 degrees most nights. I ate nothing, drank sips of water and only left to pray…
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Culture An immigrant child’s trauma in a ‘Beautiful Country’
Qian Julie Wang is the author of The New York Times bestseller “Beautiful Country,” a moving memoir of her childhood as an undocumented Chinese immigrant in New York, written on her iPhone during her subway commute to her job as a lawyer. She is the founder and leader of the Jews of Color group at…
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News The most important Congressman you probably never heard of
Although he is little remembered today, a Jewish Congressman from Brooklyn is responsible for some of the most significant legislation of the 20th century. Emanuel Celler was the principal author of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965. He also spearheaded the…
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Yiddish World After 40 years in exile, my father returns to Cuba
Read this article in Yiddish Of the many stories my father has told me about his past, my favorite is the one about the day he became an American citizen. It was February 17, 1967. My dad sat inside the Middlesex County Courthouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey, alongside a mosaic of others, waiting to…
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Yiddish World Why ‘Hester Street’ meant so much for Jewish women (and for Yiddish)
Before “Hester Street," Jewish-American women characters who looked and acted “too Jewish” were often ridiculed
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Fast Forward Netanyahu now faces arrest in several Western countries following ICC warrant
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