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In 1942, a young man named Younes is caught between a rock and a hard place. He’s a French black market runner who’s shuttling goods in German-occupied France. When he’s caught and discovered by the puppet government, Younes is given a choice: He can go to jail, or he can spy on the Arab resistance for the Nazis. This is […]

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There’s an expression in Israel roughly equivalent to “reinventing the wheel”: “Discovering America.” It can mean, less charitably, that someone is going over well-tread territory, but it also means that someone is figuring something out, finally, for better or worse. At its third national conference, J Street seems to be “discovering America” when it comes […]

Actress Mayim Bialik spoke Sunday at the National Museum of American Jewish History, marking the 90th anniversary of the first bat mitzvah ceremony in the United States. Bialik, who noted that she was the first woman in her family to become a bat mitzvah, said the ceremony offers “the means by which we as women […]

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