Today on Jewcy: Suggested pairings for your best Jewish Christmas

Delirium in New York, Asterix in Paris, laughs in Minneapolis

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Literary Magazine Apologizes for Running Excerpt by American Jewish Author After Accusations of “Othering” Emerge

In chilling note, Literary Hub announces that “there can be no meaningful separation of the literary and the political”

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To Understand the Reaction to Rubashkin’s Release, Look to Chabad’s History

Memories of centuries of anti-semitic persecution and imprisonment triggered familiar narratives this week

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A Conversation with Mary Peldman, the New Principal of The Sephardic Academy

“Studying some of the classic Sephardic books has opened us up to a range of different approaches and pedagogic models”

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King of the Hill

From Tell El-Ful, an abandoned hilltop in East Jerusalem, you can see all the way from Amman to Tel Aviv, from Jerusalem to Ramallah. Its history stretches from the biblical King Saul to the bearded King Hussein, and includes tales of raped concubines, the Six-Day War, and pot-smoking teenagers.

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The Art of Christmas Avoidance

Only in Jerusalem do I feel secure enough as a Jew to enjoy the holiday

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The Nose Job Episode

Ep. 117: Looking at rhinoplasty from every angle: Jewish, feminist, historical, and more!

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Mob Rule

How internet-fueled smear campaigns undermine Jewish institutions—and our idea of community

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Did President Obama Read the ‘Steele Dossier’ in the White House Last August?

News of the News: Why the timeline of the scandalous report that fuels Russiagate matters

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Trump, Jerusalem, and the Jews

Was it cheap politics or historical concern and fellow-feeling that motivated the president to declare his allegiance to the millennial capital?

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Mr. Barbershop

A three-part invention

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I Wanna Be Your Goyfriend

Rokhl’s Golden City: Plans for the ‘day of immense goyish significance,’ and other klezmatic holiday delights

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Denise Levertov’s Poetic Gifts and Her Hidden Inheritance from Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi

On the 20th anniversary of her death: How the influential Jewish apostate to Christianity and self-described ‘Hebrew-Christian’ Paul Philip Levertoff influenced the art and activism of his daughter