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The Desk Dispatch: Layla Schlack on What Jewish Food Means to Her
"Frustratingly, Talmudically, Jewish food is simply what Jews eat," she writes.
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Layla Schlack
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From The Desk Of Alicia Kennedy
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January 15, 2024
How 'Schindler's List' Transformed Americans' Understanding of the Holocaust
The 1993 film also inspired its director, Steven Spielberg, to establish a foundation that preserves survivors' stories.
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Emily Tamkin
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Smithsonian
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December 14, 2023
A Brief History of the US-Israel 'Special Relationship'
A historian of the Middle East examines how connections have shifted since long before the 1948 founding of the Jewish state.
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Fayez Hammad
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The Conversation
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November 29, 2023
How the New York of Robert Moses Shaped my Father’s Health
My dad grew up in Robert Moses’s New York City. His story is a testament to how urban planning shapes countless lives.
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Katie Mulkowsky
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Aeon
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November 3, 2023
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As SCOTUS Examines School Prayer, Families Behind a Landmark Ruling Speak Out
The Supreme Court opened the door to challenges on school prayer, 60 years after a landmark ruling in Engel v. Vitale.
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Retro Report
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October 26, 2023
Lou Reed Didn't Want to Be King
Will Hermes's new biography, "Lou Reed: The King of New York," tries—and fails—to pin the rocker down.
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Hannah Gold
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The Yale Review
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October 16, 2023
The Strange Feminism of “Golda”
The biopic starring Helen Mirren shies away from the moral implications of Golda Meir’s decisions.
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David Klion
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The New Republic
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September 1, 2023
Did We Really Need to Drop the Bomb?
American leaders called the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki our 'least abhorrent choice,' but there were alternatives to the nuclear attacks.
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Paul Ham
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American Heritage
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August 6, 2023
Who Is History For?
What happens when radical historians write for the public.
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David Waldstreicher
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Boston Review
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July 25, 2023
The Hunt for Judah P. Benjamin, the Spy Chief of the Confederacy
Suspected of orchestrating the Lincoln assassination, the South’s most prominent Jew escaped to London to start a new life as a high-powered lawyer.
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Jay Soliman
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Jane Singer
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Tablet
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June 22, 2023
A Cultural History of Barbie
Loved and loathed, the toy stirs fresh controversy at age 64.
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Emily Tamkin
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Smithsonian
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May 18, 2023
The House Next Door to the Stooges
A visit to the old neighborhood.
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Robin Hemley
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Turning Life into Fiction
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May 17, 2023
How A U.S. President Known to Disparage Jews Became Godfather of Israel
Harry Truman used antisemitic slurs in private. But his surprise decision 75 years ago to recognize Israel, launching a fierce alliance, was a long time coming.
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Gordon F. Sander
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Retropolis
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May 13, 2023
How Two Friends Sparked L.A.’s Sushi Obsession — and Changed the Way America Eats
An unlikely pair of Southern California businessmen paved the way for the sushi revolution in Los Angeles, upending American dining — and their own lives.
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Daniel Miller
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Los Angeles Times
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May 3, 2023
Everything We Know about the History of Diversity Is Wrong
And historians aren't exactly helping in the Harvard case currently before the Supreme Court.
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Charles Petersen
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Making History
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March 19, 2023
Kanye and the Troubling History of Persistent Antisemitism
Past and present celebrities influence on the maintaining of antisemitism.
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Bradley W. Hurt
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Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
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March 7, 2023
How Jewish Immigrants from Eastern Europe Were Introduced to Whiteness
That status has been taken as obvious, then questioned, then reasserted over the decades.
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Emily Tamkin
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Literary Hub
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November 3, 2022
A Brief History of One of the Most Powerful Families in New York City: The Morgenthaus
An excerpt from a new book on the so-called "Jewish Kennedys."
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Andrew Meier
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Literary Hub
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October 17, 2022
Fuzz! Junk! Rumble!
A show at the Jewish Museum surveys three eventful years of art, film, and performance in New York City—and the political upheavals that defined them.
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J. Hoberman
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New York Review of Books
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October 10, 2022
Living in White Spaces: Suburbia's Hidden Histories
The Black women and men who worked and slept in white homes are mostly invisible in the histories of suburbia.
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David S. Rotenstein
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The Metropole
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October 10, 2022
The Faith and Its Keepers
In the 1990s, liberal intellectuals complained that evangelicals were moralistic on political questions. Now the complaint is reversed.
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D. G. Hart
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The Wall Street Journal
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October 4, 2022
A Family’s Journey From a School Prayer Dispute to the Supreme Court
The Weisman family objected to religious prayers at a 1986 school graduation. The case went to the Supreme Court, which is again ruling on prayer in schools.
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Linda K. Wertheimer
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Retropolis
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June 20, 2022
How a Saxophonist Tricked the KGB by Encrypting Secrets in Music
Using a custom encryption scheme based on musical notation, US musicians smuggled information into and out of the USSR.
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Lily Hay Newman
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Wired
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June 8, 2022
The Holocaust-Era Comic That Brought Americans Into the Nazi Gas Chambers
In early 1945, a six-panel comic in a U.S. pamphlet offered a visceral depiction of the Third Reich's killing machine.
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Esther Bergdahl
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Smithsonian
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May 24, 2022
One Fan’s Search for Seeds of Greatness in Bob Dylan’s Hometown
The iconic songwriter has transcended time and place for 60 years. What should that mean for the rest of us?
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T. M. Shine
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Washington Post Magazine
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April 18, 2022
Doctors Without Borders
On the Black doctors who received their medical degrees and a new sort of freedom in Europe.
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Deirdre Mask
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Lapham’s Quarterly
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April 7, 2022
John von Neumann Thought He Had the Answers
The father of game theory helped develop the atom bomb—and thought he could calculate when to use it.
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Samanth Subramanian
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The New Republic
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March 8, 2022
Whoopi Goldberg’s American Idea of Race
The “racial” distinctions between master and slave may be more familiar to Americans, but they were and are no more real than those between Gentile and Jew.
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Adam Serwer
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The Atlantic
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February 3, 2022
Is Kahane More Mainstream than American Jews will Admit?
A new biography explores the American roots of Meir Kahane's far-right ideology — and how the U.S. Jewish establishment embraced his beliefs.
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Hadas Binyamini
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+972 Magazine
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December 30, 2021
‘Part of Why We Survived’
Is there something in particular about coming from a Native background that makes a person want to write and perform comedy?
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Ian Frazier
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New York Review of Books
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December 23, 2021
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