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A new study explains why Starbucks can’t spell your Jewish name

The most popular names for Jewish kids are becoming more distinctively Jewish.

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A writer faces his demons — and history’s — on a guided tour of Holocaust sites

Novelist and screenwriter Jerry Stahl’s new book is a memoir about a visiting death camps on a package tour.

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The ‘queer, disabled’ Zionist who challenged the conventions of Israel’s founders

A new biography explores the life of Jessie Sampter, a writer and poet who offered an alternative vision to macho Zionism.

How a rebranded 92nd Street Y sees its Jewish future

How Jewish families prime girls for success in schools and careers

How the big givers are looking at the post-pandemic Jewish world

Russian President Vladimir Putin.

What Putin’s talking about when he talks about ‘denazification’

From the reverent to the raunchy, YIVO’s vast archives of Yiddish life are reunited online

What happened when Jewish students at Brown University stopped fighting about Israel and started listening to each other

The new chair of Yad Vashem wants to build a ‘firewall’ between politics and Holocaust remembrance. Can he?

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