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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 ...
By Mark Oppenheimer // Fewer and fewer American religious groups practice endogamy today. ...
By Naomi Ragen // Several high-profile Israeli rabbis have come under fire for less-than-holy schemes. ...

By Letty Cottin Pogrebin There are many reasons not to give to the homeless, but we should do it anyway.

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By Josh Tapper On February 15, 1981, Michael Bloomfield’s body was discovered in a parked car on a San Francisco side

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Some New York politicians bend over backwards to accommodate Hasidic demands. ...