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Culture

Whether fleeing Nazis, Cossacks, wildfires or ICE, we all need a ‘go bag’

By Joan Afton

FAST FORWARDS

Brief items of the News and the Schmooze

Yiddish Word of the Day

Liquor
To imbibe or not to imbibe — there's a way to talk about that in Yiddish.

Books

In an Israeli boy’s coming of age story — tween angst, family dysfunction, and a bar mitzvah amidst rocket fire

By Olivia Haynie

Opinion

Steve Bannon has given an old antisemitic trope a fresh ‘pro-Israel’ spin

By Emily Tamkin

 

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