Story

Beyond the golem: Horror film ‘The Vigil’ stars lesser-known Jewish demons

Director Keith Thomas hints that an entire Jewish horror genre could be on the rise.

Puppets of Mordechai and Hitler made by Nechama Mayer-Hirsch in 1951. (Courtesy of the Jewish Historical Museum of Amsterdam)

Hitler as Haman? An Amsterdam museum holds a relic of that post-Holocaust Purim tradition.

In the years that followed the Holocaust, survivors used to cast regularly the German mass murderer as Haman or his sidekick.

Lowell School Committee Member Bob Hoey (Screen shot from YouTube)

School board member in Massachusetts used anti-Semitic slur on live TV

The slur followed complaints about undocumented immigrants, diversity in the local high school’s student government, the concept of “equity” and Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

First Person

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

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)

Global

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

Bonds of Life

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

Ideas

How Queen Esther Became an American Hero

New York

MAGA Jews spurn Purim masks • ‘JewAnon’ conspiracy takes hold • Andrew Yang joins Bobover sect

New York

Our Masks Can be Holy Garments Too

New York

Lessons Learned from a Year of Zoom Minyan

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