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Roberta Kaplan is crushing white supremacists in court — and she wants America to start taking them more seriously

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The Sit-Down

From the reverent to the raunchy, YIVO’s vast archives of Yiddish life are reunited online

What happened when Jewish students at Brown University stopped fighting about Israel and started listening to each other

The new chair of Yad Vashem wants to build a ‘firewall’ between politics and Holocaust remembrance. Can he?

In Brooklyn’s hipster Williamsburg neighborhood, Hasidic Jews are the real counterculture

Randi Weingarten has a vision to get kids back to school — and strong words for Jews who say unions are the obstacle

Is the Jewish deli the new synagogue?

Roberta Kaplan is crushing white supremacists in court — and she wants America to start taking them more seriously

Hasidic rapper Nissim Black opens up about his creative process, spirituality and COVID recovery

Will American Jews ever be unified again? Abe Foxman remains an optimist.

When Jewish Refugees Were a Problem No One Wanted to Solve

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