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100 Senators Received This New Hitler-Themed Card Game

Max Temkin, co-creator of Cards Against Humanity—the obsessively irreverent card game that involves coming up with the obscenest notions imaginable and guessing which of your horrible friends invented them—made a new game about Hitler, and he’s been giving it away for free to those who need it most. Namely: U.S. senators. All the U.S. senators. […]

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How Hungary’s Leading Anti-Semitic Politician Discovered His Jewish Roots

You may have followed the 2013 story of the Hungarian right-wing anti-Semitic leader Csanad Szegedi discovering that his grandmother was not only Jewish, but had survived Auschwitz. Joseph Martin’s new documentary Keep Quiet probes Szegedi’s subsequent exploration of his Judaism, along the way exposing Hungary’s misuses of history and the still-precarious existence of its Jews. […]

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How 19th-Century Jews Appealed to President Jefferson

Jews have a long history of making sure our heads of state hear from us. So if you’re planning on lobbying the President-elect, you could do worse than to model your conversation on a 200-year-old exchange between Thomas Jefferson and 19th-century New York-born proto-Zionist Mordecai Manuel Noah. In 1818, Noah, a former diplomat and journalist of Portuguese […]

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