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Yiddish World Growing up as a young Jewish girl in the Ukrainian countryside
This is one in a series of stories submitted by readers about their ancestors’ experiences growing up in Ukraine, during a time when it was a thriving center of Jewish life. My grandmother, Perl (we called her Paula) Braver or Braverman, was a fair-haired, blue-eyed woman who usually wore her long hair in braids atop…
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News Democratic group seeks to inspire political activism among Jewish women ahead of midterms
A group of prominent Jewish women, who have been active in Democratic politics in recent years and in communal leadership for decades, are relaunching efforts to expand their network of Jewish political activism ahead of the midterm elections this fall. The volunteer group, named Jewish Democratic Women for Action, was initially formed last year to…
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News On Super Bowl Sunday, look for the Jewish flag football player on 50-yard line
Every Super Bowl game starts the same way: a coin toss determines who receives the ball first. With millions of people watching this moment — millions of dollars are wagered on it — the National Football League uses the occasion to highlight worthy causes and people. Last year, a healthcare worker flipped the coin. The…
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Opinion Amidst conflict, Ukrainian Jewish women are thriving — and preparing for whatever happens next
As tensions between Russia and Ukraine continue to mount, a chorus of male voices from the Soviet Jewish Diaspora, and an older generation of Jewish Ukrainian leaders, are telling us what to think about it. It is common to see panels of Jewish life in Ukraine with no women represented, hosting Ukrainian leaders who have…
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Culture On TikTok, she offers a spicy daily take on Talmud
In one of many oddball stories in the Talmud, the commentary on the Hebrew Bible, we’re told about an ancient diss: one rabbi tells another rabbi that his voice is so bad that if the Holy Temple were still standing, he wouldn’t be allowed to sing in it. As Miriam Anzovin puts it in her…
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News Lisa Colton has great big bold ideas on Jews and climate change
Lisa Colton plans to galvanize the Jewish community around climate change the same way she once sold Girl Scout cookies: with new ideas. As a scout, Colton purchased a box of each flavor cookie with her own money, cut the individual cookies into small pieces and offered them as samples. She sold more than 1,000…
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Culture In ‘Licorice Pizza,’ P.T. Anderson shows us what makes Jews — and Haim — unique
Thanks to Paul Thomas Anderson, we can now glimpse the Haim family’s Shabbat dinners
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Opinion Ashkenazi Jewish women like me have a higher risk of breast cancer. I didn’t know this until my own diagnosis
Breast cancer can strike any woman at any time, yet few young women are fully aware of the potential deadly threat they face. For Ashkenazi Jews like myself, this disease looms as an even larger threat compared to most women. A mutation in the BRCA gene is the most common cause of hereditary breast cancer….
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Fast Forward Why neo-Nazis marched in Ohio this weekend, and almost every weekend in the US
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Opinion The group behind Project 2025 has a plan to protect Jews. It will do the opposite.
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Opinion Just about every interpretation of Trump’s narrow election victory is wrong
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News Your complete guide to Trump’s Jewish advisers and pro-Israel cabinet
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Fast Forward Rep. Ritchie Torres, outspoken pro-Israel advocate, is dropping hints that he could run for NY governor
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Fast Forward Ursula Haverbeck, infamous German Holocaust denier known as ‘Nazi grandma,’ dies at 96
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Fast Forward A Jewish museum in Tulsa held a funeral for remains of Holocaust victims it kept for years
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Sports Texas A&M’s Sam Salz cherishes his first taste of DI college football — and the opportunity to inspire fellow Orthodox Jews
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