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A Jewish husband wants his wife to cut off all contact with her anti-Semitic mom. She asks the #Seesaw for help explaining to him why she can’t just end the relationship.
Ever since Kristallnacht, one Jewish family has been searching for the man who saved them from the Holocaust. He was a Nazi officer.
"At the heart of the 'Frozen' craze is a voice — a powerful, emotional, Jewish voice." Next up on our #Forward50 Top 5: Idina Menzel! http://jd.fo/p64ZL
The number of people who believe they are descendants of the Jews or the ancient Israelites about equals the number of officially recognized Jews.
Fruit croquants. Caramel tart. Pain d'epices. Dorie Greenspan has cracked the code of how the French bake at home for family and close friends.
"Like most other German Jews, I thought: Was there really no other day they could have brought down the wall besides the anniversary of Kristallnacht? Which by the way also happened to be the day when the first German Republic was declared in 1918, and when Hitler failed in his Munich beer hall putsch in 1923." Where were you when the Berlin Wall fell? Tell us in the comments.
"The mansion lived a double life. By day, it was filled with American secretaries who checked visa applications against a list of registered Nazis. At night, it was a safe house for spies."
Was Tolstoy really an anti-Semite?
"My abortion was a secret that I kept for almost 20 years." Judy Bolton-Fasman moving essay is a must read:
"The most surprising thing about “Listen Up Philip” is how boring it is." Planning on catching a movie this weekend? You may want to read Anya Ulinich's review first.
Don't try this at home.
Everything you need to know about Jonathan Greenblatt, the man who will replace Abe Foxman as head of the ADL - Anti-Defamation League.
"I realized I could no sooner stop being a Jew than I could stop being Korean, or female, or me." Next up in our #Forward50 Top 5: Central Synagogue's Rabbi Angela Buchdahl: http://jd.fo/f5tsc
The United States tried to arrest Roman Polanski while he was touring the new Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw last week.
One yeshiva's fight against the IDF (hint: it involves treadmills).

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