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by Matt Sienkiewicz

August 31's Short Reads

Forward Biden decided to ‘smother Netanyahu with love’ during 2021 Gaza conflict, new book claims

Lehrhaus Lost Literary Worlds: A Review of David Torollo’s edition of Yedaya ha-Penini’s Sefer ha-Pardes

Tablet The Takeover

Tablet What’s Cooking in the Catskills

The Beinart Notebook Emmanuel Shahaf and Iyad Rafidi on Federation in Israel-Palestine

Forward A Serbian city’s Jewish community barely survived the Holocaust. Now it might die out.

Forward Hasidic rap song slams yeshivas that reject students who don’t fit in

Forward Israeli man wounded in stabbing attack in Jerusalem; 14-year-old assailant shot dead

Forward For teenage protesters in Israel, the politics are personal

Forward A West Virginia rabbi’s ‘obsession with Lego’ and comic books connects him with his changing community

Forward Iran banned a weightlifter for life after he took a photo with an Israeli opponent

Forward Unilever wins pensioner shareholder case over Ben and Jerry’s Israel boycott

Emes Ve-Emunah Words Are Cheap!

Kveller Jewish Baby Names That Start With the Letters ‘U’ and ‘V’

Kveller Actress Maya Landsman Is Changing the Face of Israeli TV

Forward Netanyahu minister wants to revoke credentials of journalists critical of Israel

Forward Two monuments to Nazi collaborators discovered hiding in plain sight near Detroit and Philadelphia

Mishpacha Flashback: Lifetakes — The First Day, Issue 456

Future of Jewish The Jew Whose Love Affair With a Nazi Saved Others in Auschwitz

eJewishPhilanthropy You are so invited to my mitzvah project

eJewishPhilanthropy A higher education partnership to elevate Jewish early childhood education

Ami Remembering the Rosh Yeshiva of Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin // Rav Aharon Schechter

Ami Why Is There a Crime Explosion Among Arab Israelis? // A Massive String of Homicides has Begun Targeting Politicians

Ami The Sacklers and OxyContin

Ami Surprise! Another Side to the Story // Jumpy journalists could use summer school

Tablet Letters From the Past

Forward NJ township will pay $575,000 to settle lawsuit alleging discrimination against Orthodox Jews

Forward Israel wins first-ever gold medals at rhythmic gymnastics world championships

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