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While Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral win has dominated headlines, a different political milestone happened the same day — one that few people have heard about. On Tuesday, November 4, history was made in University Heights, Ohio: Michele Weiss became the first Orthodox Jewish woman to become a mayor in the United States. Formerly the vice mayor […]
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I left Iran with my family in the early 1990s. By then, most of my relatives had already fled around 1978, as the revolution gathered force and the tyrannical regime that replaced the Shah tightened its grip. Sons were moved out first. Families like my own scattered overnight. People left homes, businesses, and heirlooms behind […]
For nearly eight decades, American Jews experienced a rare sense of security in New York. The city offered law, stability, and boundless opportunity. More than anywhere else, New York embodied the postwar promise that Miss Liberty proclaimed: “Here, you can become what you strive to be; here, the door stands open.” That door has not […]
Wicked: For Good feels less like a sequel and more like a warning flare. After last year’s Wicked used Oz to mirror the early stirrings of fascism, Jon M. Chu returns with a darker, sharper chapter that shows how a society can be hustled into cruelty, one rumor, one scapegoat, one “reasonable” compromise at a […]
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How to rise above society’s impossible standards of beauty and attain real self-esteem.
