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How did Europe’s Jews cope with a 17th-century plague? This 350-year-old memoir offers a glimpse.

Glikl Hamel’s writings, now available in a new English translation, is a rare surviving example of a female-authored memoir from the 1600s.

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Thousands join 48-hour #NoSafeSpaceForJewHate Twitter boycott to protest anti-Semitism on the platform

The protest began after Twitter allowed anti-Semitic tweets by UK rapper Wiley to remain online for days.

Rainer Hoess poses at a school after speaking to students about his grandfather's legacy in Toronto, Canada on Nov. 19, 2019. (Andrew Francis Wallace/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

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Grandson of Auschwitz commander Rudolf Hoess, who criticized his family history, is a criminal, report claims

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CNN election forecaster Harry Enten on his bar mitzvah, the 2020 Jewish vote and why he says ‘Shalom’ on TV

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Meet the Iranian-Jewish ‘progressive prosecutor’ vying to be Manhattan’s next district attorney

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There are 49 Jews left on the British island of Jersey. The pandemic has pushed their one synagogue to the brink.

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Parshat Devarim: Holy Interruption

New York

Stephen Miller’s grandmother had Covid, Israel welcomes Ethiopians, yeshiva hosts climate conference

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Parents face impossible choices during the pandemic. We shouldn’t face school-shaming, too.

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