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(Cohen is standing in the second row, far right) Long before becoming the prince of bummers that we all know and love, Leonard Cohen was a regular, bona fide, all-Canadian high-schooler, an A-student and big man on campus well-known in the halls of Westmount High. He was also president of his high school’s Menorah Club. That’s […]

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Don’t confuse The Maccabees with The Maccabeats. The latter is a popular Jewish a capella group based at Yeshiva University. The former was a popular British rock band that played at some of the biggest music festivals in the world before breaking up in August. The other significant difference? None of the members of the […]

If for the past week, you’ve forked up a pile of potato latkes fried in olive oil, thinking you’re channeling the persistence of your Hasmonean ancestors, think again. Far from being canonical, the latke, it turns out, is as diverse and adaptable as the Jewish people who consume it. And it’s anything but traditional. The […]

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