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Looking Forward My favorite Christmas scene in literature — and why it makes me feel so Jewish
Louisa May Alcott's 'Eight Cousins' is set in a distinctly un-Jewish milieu, but I saw myself on the page all the same
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Fast Forward From golems to Horton to banana menorahs: This year’s Hanukkah kids’ books light up the imagination
This season’s children’s titles bring poetry, humor, Jewish wisdom — and even a kitten or two — to the holiday bookshelf
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Fast Forward National Book Award in nonfiction goes to Gaza polemic ‘One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This’
The book by Omar El Akkad stems from a viral tweet. A book about Jewish refugees won the young people’s literature award.
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Culture When Jews really did wage a ‘war on Christmas’
A new book recalls the “The Great Christmas Boycott of 1906,” when immigrants fought for the separation of church and state in public schools
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Books Esteemed by Oscar Wilde, England’s ‘greatest Jewess’ may finally be getting her due
A recent acquisition by Cambridge University will burnish the reputation of Victorian Jewish writer Amy Levy
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Books How the Yonkers-born son of Jewish immigrants became the king of American comedy
In what could be called 'Your Biography of Biographies,' David Margolick chronicles the unlikely stardom of Sid Caesar
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Books Why the story of Noah’s Ark seems timelier than ever
Charlotte McConaghy’s 'Wild Dark Shore' is only the latest riff on a biblical tale of climate change
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Books The Lakers were about to shock the NBA. But Shabbat had to end first.
The secret Jewish history of…the Luka Dončić trade?
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Sports First Puka Nacua, now Mookie Betts: Why do sports stars keep getting antisemitic around a Jewish streamer?
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Fast Forward After MIT professor’s killing, Jewish influencers spread unverified antisemitism claim
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Culture Why do Jews eat Chinese food on Christmas?
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Politics This politician refused to say ‘Happy Hanukkah,’ then blamed ‘political correctness’ for the backlash
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Culture Waiting on line on Christmas is a time-honored New York tradition — was it ever thus?
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Fast Forward The data is in: For many in the Northeast, Christmas isn’t Christmas without Chinese food
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Fast Forward StopAntisemitism names Tucker Carlson ‘Antisemite of the Year’ as 2024 winner Candace Owens ramps up anti-Jewish rhetoric
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Fast Forward Jewish groups defend European media monitors banned for what State Dept. calls ‘censorship’
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