OUR LEAD STORY

Books

Why Jews were like everyone else — only more so — during slavery and the Civil War

By PJ Grisar

Culture

How two Jewish names — Kohen and Mira — are dividing red and blue states

By Benyamin Cohen

FAST FORWARDS

Brief items of the News and the Schmooze

Yiddish Word of the Day

Hands
Learn how to say “on the one hand” and “on the other hand,” just like Tevye does.

Opinion

Blame Roy Cohn for the vicious backlash to Jeffrey Goldberg’s group chat scoop

By Rob Eshman

Opinion

On the left as well as the right, a thick residue of antisemitism in France

By Robert Zaretsky

 

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