Human Interest
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With the world watching the long-awaited release of the last remaining hostages, this moment invites reflection on the life of perhaps the most renowned Jewish prisoner of modern times—Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Prize–winning author and human rights champion whose searing memoir Night drew from his harrowing experiences in Nazi concentration camps. Wiesel’s extraordinary life—his imprisonment […]
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We’ve all heard the anti-Israel voices who speak out “As a Jew,” insisting that Jews must be separated from the State of Israel. And once they declare “As a Jew,” it seems anything goes—whitewashing antisemitic violence, ignoring the massacre of our people, turning a blind eye to the taking of hostages, all while touting their […]
Excerpted from One Day in October: Forty Heroes, Forty Stories. Emerging from the pain and sorrow inflicted on October 7, 2023, these first-person accounts offer consolation and hope. Yahav and I met in acting school, and from the day we met until our final moment together, we never stopped arguing about who fell in love […]
On Oct. 14, 1663, the English civil servant Samuel Pepys decided to pay a visit to the Jewish synagogue in London’s Creechurch Lane. Jews were a novelty in Restoration England. They had been expelled from the realm nearly four centuries earlier, and it was only in 1656 that they had once again been permitted to […]
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Exploring the inner depth of the Talmudic tale about a King and his cup of wine.
