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Film & TV Remembering Sean Connery with the secret Jewish history of James Bond
James Bond's Jewish roots are evident everywhere from "Dr. No" to "Skyfall"
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News ’Hatemonger’ explores Stephen Miller, the man who filled the child cages
The first time the word “cages” appears in “Hatemongers,” Jean Guerrero’s biography of senior presidential advisor Stephen Miller, it’s in reference to Jews. Miller’s great-grandfather Nison Miller, Guerrero writes, arrived by steamship in New York City in 1904, a time when hundreds of thousands of Eastern European Jews were fleeing poverty and pogroms. At Ellis…
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Community Why I’m risking a $15,000 fine by hosting a yeshiva in our basement
Editor’s note: The author of this essay insisted on anonymity, and that his neighborhood not be specified, because he is violating city and state social-distancing guidelines and risking a hefty fine. We nonetheless felt the piece was important and interesting enough to deepen readers’ understanding. Sounds of Shema Yisrael reverberated through my house, keeping my…
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News Debra Messing’s new podcast takes on antisemitism, and Trump
Editor’s Note: The author of this article, a freelance contributor, has a troubling history on Twitter that the editor who handled it was unaware of before publication. We would not have accepted the article had we known of this controversy, and we regret any pain our engagement of this author may have caused. However, the…
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News Pastors wrapped in Torah: Why so many Christians are appropriating Jewish ritual
A decade ago, I was in Israel with an evangelical tour group researching a book about American Christians when I met Carlie, a young woman who introduced herself to the group as Jewish. I was curious why a Jewish person would join an evangelical tour and we got to talking. Her family had cycled through…
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Fast Forward The unlikely story of Ethan Berkowitz: restauranteur and Anchorage mayor, felled by sexting
Anchorage’s Jewish Mayor Ethan Avram Berkowitz announced his resignation Tuesday evening a day after a tumultuous weekend that started with anti-Semitic death threat and ended with admitting to a “consensual, inappropriate text message relationship” with a local TV reporter. That relationship turned hostile on Friday when the reporter, Maureen “Maria” Athens, posted a video to…
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News Pence’s ‘Jewish grandchildren’ defense of Trump versus the facts
Sen. Kamala Harris missed an easy layup when Vice President Mike Pence offered what he thought was his best defense of his boss’s record on white supremacy during Wednesday night’s debate. Pence said President Donald Trump couldn’t support antisemites because “he has Jewish grandchildren.” Harris let it go, but what she could have said was…
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News If Amsterdam purges prostitutes and pot shops from city center, will Jewish sites suffer?
Will the pandemic lockdown inspire Amsterdam to purge the sex and drugs from its historic core and focus more on its Jewish cultural heritage? Some natives hope so — but not necessarily the Jewish community. Like most of its European neighbors, Holland closed its borders during the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic along with…
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