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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...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly Likud party meeting at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem on March 14, 2016. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Fictional account of Netanyahu family in America wins Pulitzer Prize

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A satirical novel based on the true story of former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s father searching for a job in academia in the United States has won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The Netanyahus: An Account...
Menachem Kaiser. Photo by Beowulf Sheehan.

Menachem Kaiser wins Sami Rohr Prize for nonfiction

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The Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, in association with the National Library of Israel, announces Menachem Kaiser, author of Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure as the winner of its 2022 award...
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem on Aug. 28, 2017. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Danny Danon looks back on his fight for Israel in the halls of the...

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In the decade that separates the two books that former ambassador to the United Nations and current chairman of World Likud Danny Danon has written, a lot has transpired. Having served as a member...
Author Mikhal Dekel and her book. Credit: Courtesy.

How do Putin and Zelensky get the Holocaust so wrong?

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t’s a piece of the Holocaust that even scholars misunderstand, or neglect altogether. And it’s a story unknown even to the descendants of a quarter-million Holocaust survivors. The United Nations Holocaust Outreach Programme hosted author...
Charles Dickens Museum in London. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

London’s Dickens Museum tackles anti-Semitism in new program for students

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A museum in London dedicated to British author Charles Dickens has started a new program for schools about anti-Semitism that is focused on the novel Oliver Twist and a controversial character in it that is a...
Professor Uriya Shavit. Source: Screenshot.

UAE publishes book on Zionism written by Tel Aviv University researchers

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For the first time since the signing of the Abraham Accords, an Israeli research book has been published in Abu Dhabi, announced Tel Aviv University. The UAE’s largest public research institute—the Emirates Center for Strategic...