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How Hungary’s Leading Anti-Semitic Politician Discovered His Jewish Roots

You may have followed the 2013 story of the Hungarian right-wing anti-Semitic leader Csanad Szegedi discovering that his grandmother was not only Jewish, but had survived Auschwitz. Joseph Martin’s new...

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IKEA Israel’s Special Woman-Free Haredi Catalogue

How do the Haredi do hygge, the Nordic coziness concept that infuses IKEA? Judging from the pages of the catalogue recently made expressly for the design giant’s Israeli ultra-Orthodox clientele —...

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This Yiddish Ventriloquist Taught Tina Fey the Tricks of His Trade

Yiddish for dummies? Nope, it’s not the title of a paperback designed to get you back in touch with the mame-loshn — it’s what gets spoken during Jonathan Geffner’s Yiddish ventriloquist act. That’s...

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Hot Pockets Were Invented by These Iranian Jewish Brothers

The American dream is microwaveable. At least it was for Paul and David Merage (formerly Meraj), the Jewish Iranian immigrant brothers behind America’s favorite savory drunk snack, the Hot Pocket. The...

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Beyonce’s Coming to Seder

Have you ever wished Beyonce could lead your seder? This Passover, your wish can almost come true, with Beyonceder, the Pesach-Bey mashup meme series you didn’t know you needed (and its attendant...

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Immigrant Jews Created Preppy High Fashion

Ever wonder why your grandfather loves that coral-colored polo so? It might be because Jews, as demonstrated by a snappy new video from the fashion magazine Racked, had a hand and a presser-foot in...

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An Irreverent Haggadah to Hide Under the Seder Table

Imagine your most irreverent friend – the one who maybe eats a BLT on matzoh during Pesach, because “at least it’s not bread.” Yeah, what if you let him lead the seder this year? For This We Left...

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Your Bubbe Might Have Studied at These Yiddish Schools

In 1930s NYC, a young Jewish boy becomes a shoe-shiner and joins a street gang when his father loses his job. Through his various misadventures, he learns that the gang’s life of petty crime is not the...

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Hip, Strange Yiddish Music Videos Straight Outta Germany

“Everything has an end–only the sausage has two.” It’s not the only German idiom involving sausage (there are many), but so far as we know it is the only one to first become the title of an eighties...

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When The Philippines’ First Synagogue Burned to the Ground

The Philippines’ first synagogue had bad timing. Jews had arrived in the Philippines after the Spanish Inquisition, but after World War I a new influx of Russian Jews arrived, and decided it was high...

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The Jewish Woman Behind Celebrity American Dolls

These days, the true test of a celebrity’s, well, celebrity, rests with hosting an episode of Saturday Night Live or perhaps in coming out with a signature athleisure line (here’s looking at you,...

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A New Israeli Film Explores the Afterlife of Holocaust Family Trauma

With the 50th anniversary of Israel’s Six-Day War upon us, that historical moment is getting a lot of attention. A critically acclaimed new Israeli film takes place against the backdrop of an event...

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These Young Sibs Resisted Hitler and Paid With Their Heads. Literally.

Exhausted from calling your representatives? Looking for new activist role models? Look no further than Hans and Sophie Scholl, the German teenagers who went from being part of Hitler Youth to leading...

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The Colorful, Historic ‘Lost Shul Mural’ of Burlington, Vermont

Travel guide trivia: What Northeastern American city was once known as Little Jerusalem? If you guessed other than Bernie’s green stomping grounds of Burlington, Vermont, try again. In the Green...

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This Jewish Hollywood Cowboy Invented the Pie-in-the-Face Genre

A Jewish kid from Arkansas pulls off the ultimate reinvention and makes himself a cowboy. In the process, he becomes a motion-picture pioneer — not least by filming the first on-screen pie-in-the face,...

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What the Yiddish Diary of a 17th-Century German Woman Can Tell Us Today

The history of women can feel riddled with gaps, especially during times when education was the privilege of men. But one 17th-century Jewish woman, known as Gluckel of Hameln, left us a priceless...

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The Fierce Activists Turning Neo-Nazi Graffiti Into Art

Despite being outlawed, anti-Semitic, anti-Islamic, and anti-immigrant graffiti and stickers often get sprayed onto German walls and telephone poles nonetheless. A group of graffiti artists and one...

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This Holocaust Survivor’s Two-Step About Auschwitz Went Viral

Where does a prisoner rescued from Auschwitz find the strength to immediately pivot and fight his captors? “Music” might sound cliche, but when survivor/infantryman/cantor David Wisnia says so, he...

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Love and Tears in a Mother and Sons’ Reunion, 70 Years After the Holocaust

Izak Szewelwicz thought he knew his mother Aida. After giving birth to him in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp, she’d sent him to Palestine when she departed for Canada. Though they later...

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A New Project of Survivors’ Stories in Drawings, Letters, and Video Interviews

In the wake of #badderthantaylor, we can probably all think of a few elder Jewish women (and men) whose life stories could be a book or a feature film. Like Gerta, whose nightmarish life in...

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