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Books

Can we separate Woody Allen the artist from the man born Allan Stewart Konigsberg

By Carrie Rickey

Culture

Kosher cannabis? These gummy edibles have a rabbi’s seal of approval — and a following

By Mira Fox

FAST FORWARDS

Brief items of the News and the Schmooze

Yiddish Word of the Day

Tu Bishvat
Learn the names of the fruits we eat on this day and an easy children's poem about the holiday

Opinion

Israel’s arrest of Jerusalem’s booksellers is a grave, self-defeating error

By Yona Shem-Tov

Culture

Critics say Kendrick Lamar was too loud and hard to understand — they said the same thing about Bob Dylan in Newport

By Olivia Haynie

 

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