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Willie Zabar brings you behind the lox counter on podcast about his family’s iconic store

The podcast delves into the New York appetizing institution’s roots and the history of the foods sold there.

A New Zabar’s Podcast Wants You to Stop and Hear the Coffee

Willie Zabar, fourth-generation scion of the appetizing institution, talks about surviving the pandemic — and the 1970s.

First Person

The Gaza fighting is over, but Jewish-Arab violence in Israel still has me afraid

The interethnic clashes raise concerns not only about personal safety for me and other Jewish and Arab families in Israel, but about Israel’s future, JTA’s Uriel Heilman writes.

New York

Don’t Let the Bitterness Crowd Out the Good

Global

Jewish journalist from Detroit detained in Myanmar while trying to leave the country

United States

Cambridge, Mass., adopts a resolution critical of Israel, while a boycott measure falls short

Israel

Requests for ‘psychological first aid’ spiked in Israel during the recent conflict, suggesting possible long-term effects

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez holding a news conference in Washington, DC on November 14, 2019. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Politics

For progressive Democrats, the condemnation of antisemitism is lumped in with other forms of hate

Israel

People are accusing Israel of genocide. These human rights lawyers beg to differ.

Israel

San Francisco’s teachers union becomes first K-12 union to endorse BDS movement

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