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Opinion It’s been a dark year. The holidays are challenging. Let Isaac Bashevis Singer guide you
A great Jewish sage has simple, excellent advice that helped me — and might help you
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Fast Forward Rebecca Makkai, whose grandfather drafted a Nazi-era antisemitic law, is writing a novel about the rise of fascism
The author of “The Great Believers” has joined in an effort to fight antisemitism and also publicly criticized Israel
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Books What if Jews rebuilt the Temple?
Yishai Sarid’s ‘The Third Temple’ imagines a dark future for the Jewish state
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Books After all that controversy, here’s why Ta-Nehisi Coates (probably) didn’t change any minds on Israel-Palestine
Coates' trademark approach to journalism met a subject it couldn't make sense of
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Books How antisemitic was Joseph Conrad, author of ‘Heart of Darkness’ and ‘The Secret Agent’?
The author was known to disparage Jews, yet sometimes he was also thought to be one
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Books In the shadows of Nazi viciousness, an unlikely story of love and heroism blooms
Adriana Allegri's debut novel 'The Sunflower House' was inspired by a real-life Lebensborn institution
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Books Is it really so wrong to be into Nazi kink?
A new book mixes memoir and theory to consider what's tangled up in Holocaust sex scenes, and Jewish identity at large
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Books Tangled up in Boo? Bob Dylan wants this South African horror press to look at his short stories
Crystal Lake Publishing got an unexpected shout-out from the Nobel winner
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Music For Bob Dylan’s biographer, ‘A Complete Unknown’ is a dream come true — even if it’s mostly fiction
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Culture They were a kosher bakery success story — 80 years later, people are still trying to make a buck off their babka
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Culture ‘A Complete Unknown’ proves that one thing about Bob Dylan will certainly endure
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Film & TV Why ‘The Brutalist’ resonated so deeply with me
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Opinion Netanyahu throws cold water on hostage deal prospects — and reminds us what a curse he is for Israel
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Fast Forward Biden commutes most federal death sentences but leaves Tree of Life shooter on death row
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