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Why no one wants to talk about Monica Lewinsky’s Jewishness — and why that matters

By Eliya Smith

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How Ida flooding our basement may have been something of a blessing

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I want to hear from my kids more, but they won’t call. Should I accept my fate?

By Ginna Green and Lynn Harris

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After 9/11, the US helped thwart a major al-Qaida attack in Israel, ex-FBI agent says

Forward Performances

'One World': An elegy to the victims of 9/11, in Yiddish

Filmmaker and songwriter Josh Waletzky wrote this song days after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001. Here, he performs it to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the attacks.

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Culture

Finally, a calendar that embraces the miraculous and circular nature of Jewish time

By Mira Fox

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From ‘Star Wars’ to Madonna: 9 times shofars showed up outside shul

By PJ Grisar

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