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Want to ask Einstein about Zionism? A new AI tool lets users chat with Jewish history

The Jewish Lives series bases a chat bot on its library of biographies.

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Jewish psychics and wonder rabbis are the stars of a new museum exhibit

YIVO spotlights fortune-tellers, mind-readers and clairvoyants, and the enduring appeal of the occult in moments of social anxiety.

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A Manhattan synagogue explores the rich, surprising history of Jews and chocolate

“Sweet Treat: Chocolate and the Making of American Jews” is now on view at Central Synagogue.

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A new photo book celebrates the very Jewish cafeteria culture of a vanished New York

New York

Long Island’s new Jewish history museum means business

The entrance of an abandoned Jewish synagogue in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, Iraq pictured in 2009. (Saddam Hussein/AFP via Getty Images)

Global

Nearly half the Jewish sites in Syria have been ruined. The fate of most Iraqi sites is unknown.

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Ideas

How an Italian earthquake in 1570 created the first Modern Orthodox Jew

Israel Celebrates Festival Of Purim

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The Romans tried to ban wild Purim parties in 408 CE – for a very good reason

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Ideas

Mizrahi Jewish spies fought to build Israel. Their descendants still encounter racism there.

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Culture

A notorious pogrom spawned some long-running myths. This historian is dispelling them.

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