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The Radhanites: The Jewish Network Behind Medieval Global Trade

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The Laundromat and the Drunk Antisemite

It was pretty late and I was tired, but laundry is laundry and I had to get it done. So there I was, on Main Street in Waltham Massachusetts, stuffing my clothes into a machine and hoping the place would stay open long enough for me to get everything done, when the door swung open […]

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Iran, Trump, and the Lesson Jews Keep Forgetting

Many are interpreting the latest news about Iran through the prism of their preconceptions. If you never liked or trusted President Trump, you dismiss anything good he did in the past and see his latest pivot towards Iran and statements about Israel as confirmation that you were right all along. On the other side, those […]

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Disclosure Day: What Spielberg’s Film Gets Right About God
Spielberg's new film asks whether alien life destroys faith in God. Here’s a Jewish approach to the question.

Steven Spielberg's latest visit with little green men has landed in theaters, and it carries the same classic themes that made his films ET and Close Encounters cultural phenomena. Like its predecessors, Disclosure Day follows a handful of rebels protecting alien life from cruel and obtuse government agencies and a frightened public. And as always, […]

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Her Father Was an Arab Prince. She Chose to Be Jewish
Claire Blumenthal Zeitler was adopted, Jewish, and — she would later discover — the daughter of an Arab prince. What followed was ten years of searching for her authentic identity.

Following a divorce, a loss, and a crisis of faith, Claire Blumenthal Zeitler went in search of her biological parents and her Arab heritage. After ten years living in Arab countries, Claire returned to Judaism and the Jewish community. At six weeks old, Claire was adopted by an observant Jewish family. Every Friday night, recalls […]

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Why I Left my Dream Career at CNN & HBO

Jamie Geller reveals what it was really like to interview the biggest celebrities in the world and produce some of the hottest shows on television, and why she walked away from it all.

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