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Everyone loves Top Ten lists. They are easy to read (and write!) and generally are straight to the point. No ...

Today is a fast day, and it’s a weird one.The Tenth of Tevet, according to MyJewishLearning (you can read more ...

“Look upon their pride; send Your anger upon their heads, give into my widow’s hand the strength that I plot. ...

There’s not much we as Jews can really unite under. We tend to agree that the Holocaust was bad (and ...

I was too young to ever see this commercial on TV, so I just discovered it via YouTube now. First ...

Earlier this week, Ruth Franklin wrote about sharing a stage with Yann Martel and discussed whether anything new can be ...

On Monday, Ruth Franklin wrote about sharing a stage with Yann Martel. She is the author of A Thousand Darknesses: ...

I guess it was the recent New York Times profile of the hateful extremist Pamela Geller that set me off ...

Ruth Franklin is the author of A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction. She will be blogging all ...

At this year’s General Assembly of The Jewish Federations of North America, clear signs of the “tricky terrain” between the ...