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The concept of “tikkun olam” — repairing the world — is a central tenet of Judaism. It is also, not infrequently, an excuse for critics like your humble servant to shoehorn texts and art that are not obviously Jewish into the pages of a Jewish newspaper. But there are times when the connection between Jewish […]

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I hated Father’s Day when I was a kid. In the stormy family stew that was my almost-daily diet, “Father” meant “Sid,” and that meant trouble. My mother left Sid when I was 2, and took my older brother, Jerry, and me with her to my grandmother’s apartment in Queens. Angry battles between my parents […]

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It should be simple to make the proper distinction: Poland has a long and not distinguished history of anti-Semitism, including before, during, and after World War II. But it was not responsible for the death camps and the Holocaust. This distinction is, however, too often glossed over and is the backdrop for the fierce Polish […]

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