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"Pollice Verso (Thumbs Down)," by painter Jean-Léon Gérôme. (Public domain)

There aren’t Jewish fighters in Ridley Scott’s ‘Gladiator II.’ But what about in ancient Rome?

The real history of Jewish gladiators, from Reish Lakish to Kirk Douglas.

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Cora Wilburn, an early American Jewish novelist, gets a bridge named for her in her Mass. town

Wilburn lived in Duxbury, home to a recent antisemitism scandal, from her adulthood until her death at 82 in 1906.

These photos of the Lower East Side show how the neighborhood looked then and now

The changes in the dynamic neighborhood were recently spotlighted in a Twitter thread curated by a Hasidic Jewish man known as “Hungry Chipmunk.”

Boats in a canal in Copenhagen, Denmark

Ideas

How moving to Denmark, a country with few fellow Jews, strengthened my Jewish identity

Culture

What happened to all the art that Nazis looted? This Jewish Museum exhibit tells the story of several masterworks.

Sports

The Jewish doctor who escaped the Nazis, became a medical pioneer and founded the Paralympics

Culture

Joshua Cohen’s ‘The Netanyahus’ analyzes the famous family through the story of one night

Ideas

Calling any Jewish woman a ‘JAP’ is offensive — but not for the reason you think

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Ideas

The American Jewish story needs to include more non-Ashkenazi Jews like me

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Culture

The top 10 Jewish stories on ‘Drunk History’

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