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Art collage of the Manhattan Project. led by J. Robert Oppenheimer. Credit: Lia Koltyrina/Shutterstock

Nuclear story ‘not over,’ says author of book behind ‘Oppenheimer’ film

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Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster film “Oppenheimer,” now in theaters, explores the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer—the so-called “father” of the atomic bomb and one of history’s most famous and controversial Jews. One of the authors of the...
Naomi entreating Ruth and Orpah to return to the land of Moab, 1795. Credit: Drawing/painting by William Blake. United Kingdom, via Wikimedia Commons (scanned by H. Churchyard).

Central Shavuot text ‘all about kindness,’ says rabbi who published Arabic book of Ruth

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This Shavuot, those interested can follow along during the reading of the book of Ruth and take in quotes like “Your people are my people, and your God is my God” in Arabic. That’s...
Iddo Gefen. Photo by Uri Barkat.

Iddo Gefen wins Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature

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Iddo Gefen, an Israeli writer and cognitive psychology doctoral student at Columbia University, has won the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for his short-story collection, “Jerusalem Beach.” The prize is supported by the...
Rabbi Harold Kushner in his office on Jan. 5, 2021. Credit: Cult of Maximilian via Wikimedia Commons.

Rabbi Harold Kushner, 88, author of ‘When Bad Things Happen to Good People’

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Rabbi Harold Kushner, bestselling author and rabbi of 24 years at the Conservative Temple Israel Natick, Mass., where he earned the title rabbi laureate, died on April 27. He was 88 years old. “He was...
A stack of books by British author Roald Dahl. Credit: Shutterstock.

Publisher puts softer words in mouth of controversial writer Roald Dahl

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One of history’s great literary revisionism discussions ensues when Moses and God converse after the Golden Calf fiasco. If God does not forgive the Israelites, “Erase me, now, from the book You wrote,” Moses...
The 2015 exhibit “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile and Friends: The Art of Bernard Waber” at Philadelphia’s National Museum of American Jewish History. Credit: Menachem Wecker.

‘Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile,’ new to Netflix, offers no glimpse of character’s ‘Jewish soul’

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Crocodiles are not kosher. But the much-beloved protagonist—initially misunderstood as a villain—of Bernard Waber’s children’s books “The House on East 88th Street” and “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile” is arguably Jewish. Waber, who wrote and illustrated the...
An aerial view of the 2006 Harvard-Yale football game. Source: Harvard Sports Information Dept. via Wikimedia Commons.

Jewish football coach helped merit chip away at Harvard’s elite social status

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When Harvard University named Bill Bingham athletic director–a pioneering college sports role at the time in 1926–the alumnus promised to return the game to student athletes. He hired Arnold Horween as head football coach...
Batya Ungar-Sargon. Credit: Courtesy.

How the ‘awokening’ of the media erased the working class and the Jews

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How much of what is wrong with the country can be placed on the media? Much of the deep division between left and right—with increasingly little room left in the center—is driven by the...
A.B. Yehoshua autographs one of his novels at the International Writers Festival at Mishkenot Sha'ananim in Jerusalem in 2010. Credit: Moshe Milner/The Israel National Photo Collection.

Romance, intrigue, pragmatism, activism: For A.B. Yehoshua, Israel encompassed all

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When it comes to novelist A.B. Yehoshua, who died on June 14 at the age of 85, it’s difficult to separate his romances from his political activism. Despite his extreme views on Jewish identity, the...
Israelis attend the annual Hebrew Book Week in Tel Aviv on June 15, 2022. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.

Hebrew Book Week back in full force, even as Israeli literary giant is missed

Books, books and more books—that could be the tagline across Israel as the people celebrate the return of the National Hebrew Book Week, which was sidelined for two years because of the coronavirus pandemic. The...