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For some, this was the first pandemic Purim. For others, it was the second. For all, it was a chance to celebrate despite COVID-19.

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Transgender Jews are finding a safe haven in an unexpected place: the farm

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Nearly 200 US and UK scholars back British lecturer who called Jewish students ‘pawns’ of Israel

$Alexander Klyachin listens to and Marina Loshak, director of the Pushkin State Museum at her institution in Moscow, Russia on Sept. 30, 2019. (Mikhail Metzel\TASS via Getty Images)$

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‘Pride exists to be part of something Jewish’: Russian billionaire to head Moscow museum’s board

Television host Orlin Gorbanov in Sofia, Bulgaria on May 20, 2016. (Biser Todorov/Wikimedia Commons)

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Bulgarian game show host quotes anti-Semitic rantings by chess champion Bobby Fischer

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On a Jewish tour of northern Ontario, small spaces convey decades of history

By Robert Walker February 25, 2021 4:27 pm

The Dock Worker, a statue that stands in front of the Portuguese synagogue, was inaugurated in 1952 to commemorate the participants of the 1941 February Strike in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

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How the 1941 Dutch February Strike turbocharged a growing resistance movement in Nazi Europe

By Cnaan Liphshiz February 25, 2021 3:52 pm

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Mary Heller Cope, one of the first exchange students to Germany after World War II

By Sophie Panzer February 25, 2021 12:00 pm

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Israel’s ‘vaccine diplomacy’ is a scandal, not Michael Che’s ‘SNL’ joke

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I can’t fast for Jewish holidays without being reminded of our toxic diet culture

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Queen Esther helped me become the hero of my own Persian Jewish story

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How Queen Esther Became an American Hero

By Andrew Silow-Carroll February 25, 2021 11:00 am

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What the high priest’s holy garments teach us about the importance of wearing a mask

By Rabbi Emily Cohen February 25, 2021 10:00 am

Bonds of Life

Bess Soffer, 68, Jewish community leader whose last words, by FaceTime, were ‘group hug’

By Shira Feder February 24, 2021 3:48 pm

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‘Pride exists to be part of something Jewish’: Russian billionaire to head Moscow museum’s board

Bulgarian game show host quotes anti-Semitic rantings by chess champion Bobby Fischer

On a Jewish tour of northern Ontario, small spaces convey decades of history

How the 1941 Dutch February Strike turbocharged a growing resistance movement in Nazi Europe

Mary Heller Cope, one of the first exchange students to Germany after World War II

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Israel’s ‘vaccine diplomacy’ is a scandal, not Michael Che’s ‘SNL’ joke

I can’t fast for Jewish holidays without being reminded of our toxic diet culture

Queen Esther helped me become the hero of my own Persian Jewish story

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What the high priest’s holy garments teach us about the importance of wearing a mask

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