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Mira Fox is a reporter at the Forward. Get in touch at [email protected] or on Twitter @miraefox.

A few pieces of the Jewish magic on display, including palmistry charts and an amulet for the protection of a child. (Courtesy of YIVO/Mira Fox)
Posted inReligion

Jewish witchcraft isn’t as weird as it sounds

Mira Fox by Mira Fox June 3, 2026June 3, 2026

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. Madonna, incongruously, may be largely responsible for introducing the […]

On a recent podcast, Tucker Carlson blamed Chabad for the Iran war. (Screenshot of The Tucker Carlson Show)
Posted inAnalysis

Inside the ancient Christian theology driving modern antisemitism

Mira Fox by Mira Fox March 30, 2026March 30, 2026
Rami Malek as Douglass Kelley and Russell Crowe as Hermann Goering. (Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics)
Posted inFilm

Is ‘Nuremberg’ the Holocaust movie we need right now?

Mira FoxPJ Grisar by Mira Fox, PJ Grisar and Olivia Haynie November 13, 2025November 13, 2025
Screenshot of Elon Musk making a gesture that has been widely interpreted as a Nazi salute.
Posted inTech

Grokipedia has a weird habit of always agreeing with Elon Musk

Mira Fox by Mira Fox November 3, 2025November 3, 2025
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Posted inTV

What the new season of ‘Nobody Wants This’ gets right — and very wrong — about Judaism

Mira Fox by Mira Fox October 24, 2025October 24, 2025
Pope Francis on a visit to South Korea in 2014. (Korean Culture and Information Service/Jeon Han via Wikimedia CC BY-SA 2.0)
Posted inWorld

Will the next pope be good for the Jews?

Mira Fox by Mira Fox April 23, 2025April 23, 2025
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Posted inAnalysis

What is ‘goyslop’ and does RFK want to ban it?

Mira Fox by Mira Fox November 21, 2024November 21, 2024
a series of folding cardboard voting blinders set up on tables
Posted inPolitics

Left wing voters use ‘vote swapping’ to protest Harris — without throwing election to Trump

Mira Fox by Mira Fox November 5, 2024November 5, 2024
a man poses wearing a sign around his neck that says "Poll Chaplain/Peacekeeper"
Posted inPolitics

With harassment and intimidation expected, ‘poll chaplains’ work to keep calm on Election Day

Mira Fox by Mira Fox November 5, 2024November 5, 2024
Asi Levy and Sasson Gabay in "Bliss," which is a centerpiece film at this year's Toronto International Film Festival.
Posted inFilm

Pro-Palestine protests are at every film festival. What’s so new about that?

Mira Fox by Mira Fox September 11, 2024September 11, 2024

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