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At Maccabi, forging Jewish identity between the baselines

When I was 10, my family got frum, and I started playing baseball. Oddly, the overlap wasn’t a coincidence: Our new rabbi added me to his Little League team and taught me how to throw; I broke in my first mitt — and a new peer group — playing catch with his son.

Lee Zeldin: Trump’s Jewish mini-me

At a time when most Congressional Republicans are trying to distance themselves from Donald Trump, one is behaving like a cheap clone of his party\’s presidential candidate, complete with mind-numbing outrageous charges and incendiary rhetoric.

Talking Trump with my father

In my mind, I have arguments with my dad. In my mind, I am much more eloquent than my first grade Russian could possibly allow.

How Paris public schools became no-go zones for Jews

Twenty-five years after he graduated from a public high school in the French capital, Stephane Tayar recalls favorably his time in one of the world’s most thorough education systems.

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