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Yiddish World Playing Monopoly to the sound of warplanes
Haredi mothers in Israel come up with all sorts of ideas to help their children feel secure
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Culture How a new generation of labor organizers is using the legacy of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire
A long-awaited memorial opens in New York as high-profile unionization campaigns at companies like Amazon and Starbucks stoke interest in labor history
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Opinion Dianne Feinstein was tenacious and contradictory — just like American Jews
Sen. Feinstein’s combination of views reflected the general center of the American Jewish community
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Books In America, motherhood is dominated by a patriarchal medical industry — can Jewish tradition show the way forward?
Discussing her book 'Birth Control,' journalist Allison Yarrow finds reasons for concern and reasons for hope
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News ‘Make for me a sanctuary’: Amid Orthodox ire, Tbilisi women read Torah for the first time
Georgia's first non-Orthodox synagogue in 2,600 years is attached to a church and a mosque
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Opinion Why do so many conversations about Israel exclude more than half of the Jewish population?
The maleness of the American Jewish conversation on Israel is becoming a problem
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BINTEL BRIEF How do I get my control-freak husband to back off?
Bintel says set some boundaries — and tell him to 'quit banging the teakettle'
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Fast Forward A digital Jewish library aims to add women’s Torah scholarship to its shelves — by helping them write it
Twenty women Torah scholars will write books as part of the Word-by-Word project
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