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Culture
Why is the name of ‘the most vicious antisemite in the English-speaking world’ still so prominent at Cornell?
By Benjamin Ivry
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News
A 13-year-old died by suicide. His mother borrows from a Jewish mourning ritual to save the lives of strangers.
By Hillel Kuttler
Art
How a ‘wise man of the shtetl’ evaded Soviet repression and antisemitism to achieve international fame as an artist
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When a breast cancer diagnosis knocked me down, a network of Jewish women lifted me up
By Karen E. H. Skinazi
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