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9 cringeworthy moments from Natalie Portman and Jonathan Safran Foer’s email exchange

The two Jewish artists shared a series of long-winded emails to The New York Times' style magazine that had literary circles buzzing — and not in a good way.

Jamaica: Island of Sun, Surf, and Forgotten Jewish Pirates

Jamaican Jews number less than 200 these days, but that wasn’t always the case. The first Jews arrived in Jamaica following the Spanish Inquisition in 1494. Nearly 500 years later, in 2007, a nonprofit called Caribbean Volunteer Expeditions (CVE) started transcribing epitaphs and recording cultural trends in grave sites and found at least 21 Jewish […]

A New Book Remembers The Italian Orchestra Conductor Who Fought Nazism

In 1936, famed conductor Arturo Toscanini was distressed by the rise of Nazism and fascism. Though not Jewish himself, he wanted to help Jews avoid persecution. That year he met with the Polish-Jewish violin prodigy Bronislaw Huberman, who had just founded the Palestine Symphony Orchestra, and he asked Toscanini to conduct the orchestra’s opening concerts, […]

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9 cringeworthy moments from Natalie Portman and Jonathan Safran Foer’s email exchange

Jamaica: Island of Sun, Surf, and Forgotten Jewish Pirates

A New Book Remembers The Italian Orchestra Conductor Who Fought Nazism

Auschwitz museum prohibits Pokémon Go play on its grounds

Pokémon Go invades Auschwitz, US Holocaust Museum and more

The Jewish Woman Who Changed Fashion Photography Forever

“Jerry the Jew,” Infamous Cop-Killer and Jailhouse Lawyer

NFL player’s wife uses anti-Semitic slur to rap Jewish owner of Dolphins

The Dallas shooter wanted to stay in this anti-Semitic black militant group

After Elie Wiesel, can anyone unite American Jews?

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