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July 2020

Cover art for "All My Mother’s Lovers" (an abstract blue floral pattern with white type) and "Florence Adler Swims Forever" (a watercolor of a woman in a red swimsuit and swimming cap on a beach)
Posted inOff the Shelf

Secrets kept, secrets revealed as the main character dies in two debut novels

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman July 30, 2020July 31, 2020
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Posted inTech

Holocaust survivors launch campaign to fight Holocaust denial on Facebook

by Toby Axelrod and JTA July 30, 2020July 30, 2020
looking up at an ornate synagogue facade
Posted inWorld

In Western Europe, a Jewish ‘Community’ is like an expensive members-only club

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA July 29, 2020July 29, 2020
A man with a long beard, black hat and cableknit sweater stands on the deck of a yacht with a "Rally Rabbi" sign behind him
Posted inSports

S.F. Giants’ first home game blessed by seafaring ‘Rally Rabbi’

by Gabriel Greschler July 29, 2020July 30, 2020
a dark-haired woman in glasses smiles, sitting at a desk
Posted inOpinion

Where is the tolerance for conservative views?

Mervyn Danker by Mervyn Danker July 29, 2020
Detail from “Do not forgive them, oh Lord, for they do know what they do! (after Luke 23:34)” by Arthur Szyk, part of the Magnes Collection. (Courtesy Magnes)
Posted inPhotography

Now online: Magnes exhibits of works by Vishniac and Szyk

Laura Pall by Laura Paull July 29, 2020
four women in scrubs pray on a rooftop
Posted inReligion

A holiday marking one societal rupture, Tisha B’Av spurs Jewish creativity amid another

by Penina Beede and JTA July 29, 2020
two older men and one older woman struggle to get the corpse of another older man out of bed
Posted inTV

Move over ‘Shtisel’ — time to give other Israeli TV shows a look

Esther D. Kustanowitz by Esther D. Kustanowitz July 29, 2020August 2, 2020
a white man in a suit speaks at a podium with the logo of the Louis D. Brandeis Center
Posted inU.S.

Kenneth Marcus steps down from Education Department under cloud of 2 complaints

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA July 29, 2020
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Posted inCalifornia

Sides clash over competing California State University ethnic studies requirements

by Dan Pine July 28, 2020July 30, 2020

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