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Illuminating the History of Iranian Jews By Diane M. Bolz Jews have lived in Persia, now Iran, for nearly three ...
The title, Little Failure, is of course ironic. By now, after Gary Shteyngart’s three best-selling comic novels, many travel articles and dozens of interviews—in which he rarely gives a straight answer—his Russian Jewish immigrant parents must have forgiven him for not becoming the lawyer or accountant they envisioned. Or have ...
An investigation into the religious roots of the symbols for hugs & kisses. ...
When I was a teenager, there was a legend repeated in the Jewish schools of my hometown. If you somehow manage to get into godless Harvard, don’t go. But if, against your rosh yeshiva and rebbe’s advice, you actually go, whatever you do, don’t take biblical scholar James Kugel’s class. ...

INDEPENDENT Judaism does not restrict a woman in regard to her choices concerning pregnancy. She has a choice to bear

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By Sarah Posner The time has passed when one person can speak for the entire community. When Abraham Foxman, the

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Life Beyond Portnoy By Alan Stone Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books Claudia Roth Pierpont Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013,

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How Philistine Became a Dirty Word by Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil t’s a story nearly everyone knows: The young shepherd boy uses

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With the Winter Olympics set to open in Sochi, Russia, in February, Moment’s Josh Tapper talks to David Wallechinsky, author of The Complete Book of the Olympics and president of the International Society of Olympic Historians. ...

For the first four decades after the Holocaust, most memoirs and historical studies viewed life in the camps through male

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By Konstanty Gebert. Over the past few years, a series of books has brought to the attention of English-speaking readers the morally challenging, historically important and often overlooked or forgotten story of the Polish contribution to the Allied war effort in World War II, and of the terrible fate of ...