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Old Truths and New Clichés book review: Essays by Isaac Bashevis Singer - The universal mamaloshen

The essays in this volume may not match Singer’s fiction at its best, but they provide an invaluable supplement to our understanding of this extraordinary writer’s vision

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Old Truths and New Clichés book review: Essays by Isaac Bashevis Singer - The universal mamaloshen
Jewish drama students stage their own plays to combat hate
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Jewish drama students stage their own plays to combat hate

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Meet the Jewish space engineer who helped bring us images taking us closer to moment of creation
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Meet the Jewish space engineer who helped bring us images taking us closer to moment of creation

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Grand canal on sunny day in Venice, Italy
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HIGHLAND PARK, IL - JULY 04: Law enforcement works the scene after a mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade on July 4, 2022 in Highland Park, Illinois. Reports indicate at least six people were killed and more than 20 injured in the shooting. (Photo by Jim Vondruska/Getty Images)
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circa 1960: The Hollerith tabulator and sorter box, invented by Herman Hollerith and used in the 1890 United States census. It 'read' cards by passing them through electrical contacts. Closed circuits, which indicated hole positions, could then be selected and counted. His Tabulating Machine Company (1896) was a predecessor to the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM). (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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Are Jews white? Inside US census wars

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A still image from surveillance footage shows a person who police believe to be Robert (Bob) E. Crimo III, a person of interest in the mass shooting that took place at a Fourth of July parade route in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, Illinois, U.S. dressed in women's clothing on July 4, 2022. (Highland Park Police Department)
USA

The Jewish victims of the Highland Park shooting

By Jonathan Sacerdoti

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