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Books A Jewish family’s trauma is the villain in an epic Israeli-Palestinian love story
Zeeva Bukai on how a tragedy drives intergenerational conflict in her debut novel, 'The Anatomy of Exile'
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News How Israel’s Black Panthers radicalized its Mizrahi Jews, and changed the country
A new history of the 1970s protest movement aims to plug a hole in Israel’s public record
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News Instagram’s ‘IsraelSoWhite’ mocks notion of Israelis as ‘white colonizers’
Satirical campaign from director Ben Younger celebrates diversity among Israeli Jews
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Food These bodaciously herbaceous Jewish ingredients just might make you cuckoo for kuku
Fresh herbs are essential to a scrumptious frittata-like Persian specialty
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Opinion As Israel turns 75, I remember what I had to sacrifice to become a ‘good Israeli’
In order to be accepted in Israel, I had to deny my Iranian identity
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News Los Angeles shooting victim: ‘He was looking for Jewish people for sure’
A suspect was arrested in relation to Thursday night. He did not stop his victim from attending services on Friday
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News Proposed US census categories on race and ethnicity leave some Jews in a confusing place
New Middle Eastern-North African category still isn’t specific enough to meet communities’ diverse needs, advocate says
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Film & TV Does a small autonomous city in Morocco hold the key to religious coexistence?
A new film set in Melilla, a Spanish city on the edge of Morocco, features friendship between Jews, Christians and Muslims
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