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    6 nov.

    AMERICAN JEWS: How would you sum up your feelings right now in a single word? Comment below.

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  2. för 12 timmar sedan

    Flexner is often referred to as the “father of modern medical education.” But he discouraged women and Black people from entering the medical profession.

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  3. för 14 timmar sedan

    "There are other jobs for an aging Israeli politician from a now-defunct party who advocated the expulsion of Arabs from Judea and Samaria. But certainly, the chair of the Directorate of Yad Vashem is not one of them."

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  4. för 16 timmar sedan

    Those who bemoan his growing distance from Judaism may be pleased with the latest trove of Dylan ephemera sold at auction, which includes mention of Barbra Streisand and other gestures toward Yiddishkeit.

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  5. för 17 timmar sedan

    Directed by Tod Lending, “Saul & Ruby’s Holocaust Survivor Band” recounts the experiences of two Holocaust survivors, Saul Dreier, 91 and Ruby Sosnowicz, 87, who’ve joined forces to form a Klezmer Band that celebrates their survival.

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  6. 26 nov.

    Though my secular Muslim father participated politely in our family's Jewish traditions, I always felt different. And after moving to D.C., I rarely went home, nor kept up with the lives of my cousins who were living the Midwest life I had escaped.

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  7. 26 nov.

    As legend has it, Torres saw the bird on his expedition a century before the Mayflower; thinking it was a kind of parrot, he assigned it the Hebrew name of that animal, “Tukki.”

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  8. 26 nov.

    In 1924, the Forward explained that we Jews don't like pie, stating it as a great and obvious truth. It's a food for the lazy, they opined. The staff in 2020 is, however, split on the pie question — but then, perhaps we've become lazy chewers.

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  9. 26 nov.

    Like the rest of the country, we're trying to figure out how to manage Thanksgiving in a pandemic. From outdoor meals to two-person apartment celebrations, elaborate menus and gas station snacks, we're taking very different tacks to the festivities.

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    26 nov.

    "This Black Friday, as you look into your shopping cart, remember that you are not as far removed from China as you think. 20% of the world’s cotton comes from China’s Uighur region. Many of your favorite companies are profiting from Uighur exploitation."

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  11. 25 nov.

    "Most outlets refer to him as Latino, still an important milestone for the first Latin-American DHS Secretary. Some mention his Jewish and Cuban heritage, but very few, reference that he is Sephardic, wiping away an entire history, culture, and identity."

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  12. 25 nov.

    HAIM, Doja Cat, Beck, Drake, Jack Antonoff, Tiffany Haddish, I'll run out of characters because the Jews are all over the Grammy categories this year.

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  13. 25 nov.

    While most coverage of events in Der Yid and Der Blatt that do not involve the Hasidic community would not look out of place in any metropolitan daily, coverage of internal Hasidic affairs strictly follows their respective Rebbe’s positions.

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  14. 25 nov.

    Boris Epshteyn, who also served as a senior advisor to Trump’s 2016 campaign for president and as the communications director for his presidential inaugural committee, said he is experiencing mild symptoms and is quarantining.

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  15. 25 nov.

    Misinformation often spreads through local groups, which tend to be populated by an older demographic of users — a demographic which is more likely to share posts, helping disseminate disinformation. Any counter campaign needs to be locally tailored too.

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  16. 25 nov.

    Dykstra’s reference to Jacob was less about the biblical patriarch and more about Phillies starter Jake Arietta, but included a reference to this week's parsha.

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  17. 25 nov.

    "Even in this hyper-partisan era, one of the last remaining shared viewpoints between Democrats and Republicans is that both agree that a nuclear-armed Iran would pose a significant threat to the United States and its allies."

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  18. 25 nov.

    "On matters in which the U.S. legitimized activity in occupied territory that is widely viewed as illegal, a Biden administration must be willing to disappoint Israel," writes Abe Silberstein.

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  19. 24 nov.

    “It is illegal to install structures or art without authorization on federally managed public lands,” the Department said in a statement, “no matter what planet you’re from.”

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  20. 24 nov.

    "Had we been consumers in 1939, many of us would have adamantly boycotted companies we knew to be complicit in the Holocaust. In fact, today many Jews still refuse to buy cars from Volkswagen and BMW."

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  21. 24 nov.

    The elder Blinken arrived in the U.S. in 1904 and died 11 years later at age 36, but not before producing a robust collection of published Yiddish work.

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