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Second Vatican Council Announced
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The Artist of Loving
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Marcel Marceau
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Eichmann and Budapest’s Judenrat
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FDA OK’s AZT
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Golda Meir Takes the Helm
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Rachel Corrie
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AKA “Notorious RBG”
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“Jewish Women Call for Change”
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Mike Stoller
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Lillian Wald and the Henry Street Settlement
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Ruth Handler and Barbie
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Bill Graham and Fillmore East
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“Where Are Your Guns?” A Story by Howard Fast
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The Legacy of Emanuel Ringelblum
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The Rosenbergs Go On Trial
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Danny Kaye from Brownsville
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Solomon Rabinovich, aka Sholem Aleichem
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Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks
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Emperor Constantine and the Jews
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A Respite for the Jews of Persia
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Leo Hirshfield and the Tootsie Roll
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Edwin Land and the Instant Camera
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Three Electric Guitarists
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The 1913 Armory Show
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Senda Berenson, Mother of Women’s Basketball
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Harold Arlen
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Jack Benny
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The Plague and the Jews of Strasbourg
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Stella Adler
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Judge Polier
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“The Sound” of Jazz
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Marty Reisman, Table Tennis Champ
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The Codex Theodosianus
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Recha Freier and Youth Aliyah
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Esther Abrahams and the First Jews in Australia
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Amedeo Modigliani
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Israel Declares Jerusalem Its Capital
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George Burns
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Immortalizing Joe Hill
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The Warsaw Ghetto’s First Armed Resistance
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Integrating Carnegie Hall
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Bella Lewitzky
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Stalin, Mikhoels, and the Doctors’ Plot
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The Lawrence Textile Strike
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He Coined the Term “Rhythm and Blues”
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Israel’s National Poet
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“Financier of the Revolutionary War”
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Lincoln Kirstein
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Dreyfus Found Guilty
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The Ventriloquist of the 60s
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“Mendele the Book Peddler”
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A Forerunner of Einstein
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Hebrew’s Reviver
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Robert Spitzer, the APA, and Homosexuality
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The Rambam
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Shabbtai Zvi, Would-Be Messiah
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The American Federation of Labor
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Liberating Alcatraz on Hanukkah
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December 16: You’re Invited to A Celebration!
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Bette Midler
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Allan Sherman, “Folksinger”
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The International Jew vs. White Nationalists
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Columbus’ Converso Crewmates
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Seeking Volunteers for Conference and Bookfair
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Zero as Tevye
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Leonard Cohen
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What Were American Police Learning at an Israeli Counter-Terror Convention?
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Auto-da-fé
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A Shanah Tovah from Eli Valley
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What The Conservative Movement Didn’t Teach Me
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Varian Fry in Vichy France
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In Solidarity with Monument-Topplers
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The Attack
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German Reparations
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Mutual Recognition
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Befriending Nazis Won’t Stop Fascism
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Hillel International Must Reject the David Project in Favor of Inclusive Community
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David Bernstein’s JCPA Sides With A Monied Minority Against the Rest of Us
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Secularism and Our Heritage: The Origins of Pesakh
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Jewish Currents is Seeking an Associate Editor
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Fact-Checker, Fact Checker
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Abe and Julia — and J. Edgar Hoover
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What Secretary John Kerry Said
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Kinderlekh (Children)
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Calling on the Electoral College . . .
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Yiddish Curses for Republican Jews
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Ernestine Rose, Abolitionist
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Fake Books: The Unpresidented Edition
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JFREJ’s Evolution: A Conversation with Dove Kent
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Going Mad
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Organize, Don’t Celebrate
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Shana Tova New York
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What Am I, Chopped Liver?
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Making the Minyan
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The Besere Velt Times: Good News for September, 2036
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Trump’s Second Amendment Call is a Turning Point
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Resisting Authority
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The Besere Velt Times: August 2036
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The Legacy of Hannah Senesh
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Anti-Semitism: It’s Back!
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The Ethical Challenges Teachers Face
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What Bernie Would Have Said at AIPAC
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Reclaiming Kurt Lewin
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Comrade Mordecai
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Seder in a Song
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Rabbi Rachel Cowan Urges Health Care for All
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The Sheep Were Legend, the Wolves Were Real
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The World Goes Backwards: A Screenplay by Sholem Aleichem
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I Owe My Life to My Attacker
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Marek Edelman, the Heroic Anti-Hero
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Bernie’s Campaign: What Good Is It?
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Staughton Lynd on Abidor’s Anarchists Never Surrender
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Marc Jampole’s “Hashmal”
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Megaphone: Fighting Khasidic Control in Upstate New York
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First Cousins — A Visit to Israel in Verse
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Postcard
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Stirring the Pot: Is “Organic” Only for the Elite?
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Wish I Was Here: A Nod to Religious Authority?
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June 20, 1953
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A Progressive Zionist Challenge to the Israeli Government
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Poverty and Older Women
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Two Cents and a Corned Beef Sandwich
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Jewish Journeys: The Religious Nutcase
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People of the Book 101: Reuben Iceland and Di Yunge
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New Jersey Peace Action Meets the Israeli Disarmament Movement
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Why the Search for Malaysian Flight 370 Is So Crucial
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Channel Esther: The Clara Lemlich Awards
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Adoption and Anti-Semitism
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Sumayl — Tel Aviv’s Shadow Village
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The Genius and the Gentiles: Chagall’s American Odyssey
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The View from J Street: The Wisdom of a Former Shin Bet Chief
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People of the Book 101: Alfred Kazin
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The View from J Street: For Bibi, the Time for Talk Is Past
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When Harold Ramis Spoke Yiddish
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Pete Seeger and Yiddish Song
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An Enemy with Outposts in Our Head
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Max Raabe Revives Weimar-Era “Schlager”
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From Orthodoxy to Bacon in Five Uneasy Steps
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The View from J Street: A Challenge to AIPAC
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Bird Migrations and Human Migrations
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Channel Esther: Protestants
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Shirley Temple and Me
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Muriel: In Memoriam
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Hany Abu-Asad, Director of “Omar”
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The View from J Street: Time for the Peace Talks to Get Serious
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Channel Esther: Fast-Food Workers in My Writing Class
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The Hardliner Who Ended Otherwise
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NAMEN: Where Do Jews Get All These Names?
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Channel Esther: Going to the Gym
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The View from J Street: New Sanctions on Iran Endangers Israel
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Ancient Jews and Modern Muslims
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People of the Book 101: Joseph Landis and Daniel Waldman
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From “How Jewish Are You” to “How Are You Jewish?
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Kleztival Brazil, 2013
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Does Judaism Have Essential Beliefs?
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O My America: Letter from a Prisoner in Solitary Confinement
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Sephardic Jewry: Not Built in a Day
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Jewish Journeys: The “Customer Man” — A Love Story
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Nelly Sachs and the “Hubris of Pain”
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The Uncivil Servant: Art Spiegelman at the Jewish Museum
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The 75th Anniversary of Japan’s Stand Against Anti-Semitism
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South African Jews as the Silent Minority
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The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Labor Bund
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Netanyahu Should Remember: Obama Is a Friend
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History, Herstory, Ourstory: Choosing Sides in New York, 1776
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People of the Book 101: In the Classroom with Ernest Samuels
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Saving Bulgaria’s Jews: Church, State, and Citizens United
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Stirring the Pot: How to Kosher a Treyf Kitchen in 613 Steps
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November 15: Émile Durkheim
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History, Herstory, Ourstory: Equals Among Equals, Jews in Federalist New York, 1790
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Politics and Sex: What’s Really at Stake?
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A Prisoner Release instead of a Settlement Freeze
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History, Herstory, Ourstory: Twelve Jewish Jurors
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J Street and the Berkeley Jewish Student Union
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History, Herstory, Ourstory: The Case of the Franks-Levy Portraits
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Working and Organizing at Walmart
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Once Removed: Discovering an Israeli Cousin
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Letter from Birzeit, #1: Orientation
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History, Herstory, Ourstory: Asser Levy in New Amsterdam
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Thinking about the Holocaust: How Does It Shape Our Consciousness Today?
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Ivan Klima’s Memoir: Where Are the Jews?
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For the Sin of Racism
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The Arc of the Moral Universe Doesn’t Bend on Its Own
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East Toledo, 2012
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A Socialist in Congress: My Great Uncle, Meyer London
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“Three Score and Ten Our Years May Number . . .”
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A Day in the Life
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Leftists and the Civil Rights Movement
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In the Krakow Ghetto: Code-Name “Justyna”
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Food Prices and Food Justice
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An Unsettled Peace Process
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Israel’s Problems with Richard Wagner
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In Peace Talks, Watch What Bibi Does
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Jews and the Elephant Question
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Debating the Necessity of Nuclear Power
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How Varian Fry Rescued My Elders
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June 19th in Soho: Celebrate Our Summer Supplement
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In the Genizah of Dying Languages
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Why I Became Vegetarian at Age 86
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Why the BDS Movement Is Effective and Right
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Why the BDS Campaign Is Worse than Ineffective
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The Old Left, the New Left, and the Jews
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Eden: Van Cortlandt Park, 1946
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The State of American Unemployment
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Edward Engelberg: More on “Mona Lisa” and Kristallnacht
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People of the Book 101: Allen Ginsberg
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The Israeli Spring in Kiryat Shemona
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My Grandfather’s Lover
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For the Triangle Fire Centennial, March 25th
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Ocean Hill-Brownsville Reexamined
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Blitspostn, Vebzaytlekh, Veblogs: The Rise of Yiddish Online
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Global Development and the United Nations
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A Conversation with Daniel Libeskind
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When I First Met Sh. Ansky
admin December 1, 1990
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African-Americans & Jewish-Americans: A New Agenda for an Old Alliance
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Kindertransport Reunion
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Jews in Latin America: Past and Present
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Is There A Future For Jewish Secularism?
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Reparations to Jews By Lutherans?
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Jews & Negroes: Unity from Collision
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A Secular View of Bar Mitzva
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A Blighted Passover
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Women Unite for Desegregation
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Parents’ Corner: Rosh Hashona and Yom Kippur
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Pilgrimage to Atlanta
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