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The life-changing magic of washing your hands (on Passover)

A Jewish educator discovers new meaning in a seder ritual that a lot of people, well, pass over.

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The Sit-Down Ideas

‘The Jewish Catalog’ turbocharged DIY Judaism. 50 years later, one of its editors is back with a ‘bookend.’

Fifty years after “The Jewish Catalog,” Michael Strassfeld sets out to describe the purpose of ritual and observance.

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An 1859 fight over how to make matzah has lessons about the threat of AI today

When it comes to Passover, the machines won, writes a Jewish scholar focused on the future.

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How a once-cautious Benjamin Netanyahu came to lead the most radical coalition in Israel’s history

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My grandmother was a ‘Sherlock Holmes of Yiddish song,’ but she couldn’t solve the mystery of antisemitism

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How Judy Blume’s ‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret’ broke taboos about interfaith families

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Which side are you on: Jewish American or American Jew?

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Commemorating Philip Roth means confronting his limitations head on

Israeli forces prevent protesters to enter Huwara

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The Purim story starts in fear and ends in vengeance. Can America and Israel break that cycle?

A history of Mel Brooks as a ‘disobedient Jew’

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