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I come from a long line of Jewish Bundists. Now, Molly Crabapple is part of our family.
My grandparents live in a small apartment in Santa Monica. It has white walls and wood floors and is full of light. The living room window faces the street, and my grandma, Kathy, likes to poke her head out and talk to her neighbors, many of whom moved here after the Palisades fire, just like…
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American Jews have a Hasan Piker problem. Solving it is going to hurt
Years ago, I went to a therapist who practiced Acceptance and Commitment Therapy — popularly known as ACT — which asks patients to interrogate what their values are, and whether their behaviors are aligned with those values. This therapist had me use a little matrix. In one block, I would write down what really mattered to…
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200+ Bnei Menashe immigrate to Israel from Israel, the first to make the journey in years
(JTA) — On Thursday, 240 members of India’s Bnei Menashe community arrived in Israel, marking the latest convoy of immigrants brought as part of a government-backed effort to relocate the entire community. The flight, which landed at Ben Gurion Airport, was welcomed by a delegation including Israel’s aliyah minister and the chairman of The Jewish…
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What can we learn from Molly Crabapple’s book about the Bund?
דאָס נײַע בוך „דאָ, װוּ מיר לעבן, איז אונדזער לאַנד“ פֿון מאָלי קראַבעפּל איז אַ פֿאַרכאַפּנדיקע לעקטור. זי דערצײלט די 50־יאָריקע געשיכטע פֿונעם „ייִדישן אַרבעטער בונד“ דורך פּערזענלעכע ביאָגראַפֿיעס פֿון אַמאָליקע באַרימטע און װײניק־באַקאַנטע אַקטיװיסטן. אַזוי אַרום באַלעבט זי דעם טרוקענעם פֿאַקטישן מאַטעריאַל דורך איר פֿלאַמיקן כּח־הדמיון און מאָלט אױס די אַמאָליקע העלדן װי אונדזערע…
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Today’s American Jews finally have their era’s Sandy Koufax
Something strange, funny and frankly delicious happened on social media last Tuesday night: A legion of extremely online sports fans stepped forward one by one to admit that the NBA’s most famous Israeli was, unfortunately, very good at basketball. Deni Avdija, the 25-year-old forward for the Portland Trail Blazers, had just scored 41 points and…
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Netanyahu reveals prostate cancer treatment, says he hid diagnosis during Iran war
(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed on Friday that he had recently undergone treatment for early-stage prostate cancer, adding that he kept the diagnosis private amid the war with Iran. “I requested to delay its publication by two months so that it would not be released at the height of the war, in…
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Recalling Millie Baran, whose mark on the Yiddish world lives on
Millie Baran, a Holocaust survivor who served for many years as a “camp mother” at the socialist Yiddish summer camp, Hemshekh, and spoke publicly, even on television, about her Holocaust experiences, passed away on April 3. She was 100 years old. Millie, whose late husband, Mikhl Baran, was the camp’s director, was known for her…
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Teens in 2 states arrested over threat that shuttered Houston synagogue
(JTA) — Two teenagers were arrested this week for an alleged plot to drive through a Houston synagogue and “kill as many Jews as possible,” according to local authorities. Angelina Han Hicks, 18, of Lexington, North Carolina, was arrested at her home on Wednesday and charged with conspiring with two other individuals to commit an…
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A New York Jewish childhood at the Dalton School where privilege met progressivism
I am what is called “a Dalton lifer.” I was born in Manhattan on Dec. 1, 1943, at Lenox Hill Hospital and was a New Yorker all my life before I married and moved away. For 14 of those years, from when I was 3 (going on 4) until I was 18, I attended the…
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In the depths of Tel Aviv’s bus station, a fragile refuge for those with nowhere else to go during war
(JTA) — TEL AVIV — Two floors underground, past dumpsters and oil-laden puddles, through a reinforced Cold War-era door, a bomb shelter is buried underneath Tel Aviv’s Central Bus Station. Built in 1993 to accommodate more than 16,000 Israelis, the shelter found a new life during the Israel-Iran war as a public refuge for residents…
