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The first ‘Harry Potter’ book is now available in Yiddish

The 29-year-old translator is the son of a leading Yiddishist.

Lior Schleien, shown here in a 2018 segment, is the host of the Israeli satirical show "Gav HaUma." (Screenshot from Facebook)

Meet Lior Schleien, Israel’s Jon Stewart

Schleien, the host of the satire show “Gav HaUma,” has become a voice for Israel’s secular liberals.

The National Archives got Ford to sponsor an Auschwitz exhibit. Henry Ford’s role in the Nazi machine was not mentioned.

Ford encouraged its European subsidiaries to collaborate with the Nazis, but that’s not mentioned in a National Archives exhibit on the Holocaust sponsored by the car company.

This Jewish data whiz predicts the Oscar winners with math

In Moldova, Jewish teens go to schools to dispel anti-Semitic stereotypes

Kirk Douglas, iconic movie star who reconnected to Judaism later in life, dies at 103

I advocate for stronger yeshivas — and nothing about that is anti-Orthodox

Dodgers Jewish slugger Joc Pederson being traded to the Los Angeles Angels

Native American Jewish justice Raquel Montoya-Lewis tells us how she made history

I’m done passing as a matrilineal Jew

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