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EST 1917

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While Andy Samberg’s regular name is solidly Jewish, his rap name, it turns out, is…not so kosher. In their latest video from “The Wack Album,” which comes out June 11, we find out what The Lonely Island boys are called on the bad streets of the fake rap world. Samberg introduces us to Jorm (Jorma […]

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Nadia Kalman’s The Cosmopolitans gives us a Tevye for the 21st century. The novel features a family of Soviet Jewish émigrés: Osip Molochnik (whose last name literally means “dairyman” in Russian), his wife Stalina (after the eponymous dictator), and, in true Fiddler form, 3 daughters on the brink of marriage. Milla, the eldest, chooses a spoiled American Jew instead of […]

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