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Why do medical dramas keep perpetuating terrible stereotypes about Orthodox Jews?

Depictions like the one in Nurses are frustrating because they are built on harmful, grossly incorrect stereotypes about Hasidic Jews.

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The Jewish muscleman who likely inspired the creators of Superman

Siegmund Breitbart could bend rods into horseshoes and bite through chains. He thrived at a time of rising anti-Semitism in Germany prior to the Nazi era.

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Israel’s ‘vaccine diplomacy’ is a scandal, not Michael Che’s ‘SNL’ joke

Instead of working to distribute vaccines to Palestinians under the rule of law, Israel has promised doses to far-off foreign governments, writes a former journalist and current graduate student and U.N. intern.