The Lost Jews of the Amazon

The Lost Jews of the Amazon

In a glass case at São Paulo’s Jewish Museum sits a Torah scroll that has traveled farther than most people ever will. Written in 16th-century Spain, smuggled to Morocco during the Inquisition, and carried deep into the Brazilian Amazon by Jewish refugees, this 400-year-old parchment tells one of the most extraordinary migration stories in Jewish…

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5 Jewish Stand-Up Comedians to Keep Your Eye On

5 Jewish Stand-Up Comedians to Keep Your Eye On

1. Yohay Sponder @yohay_sponder 134K IG followers Proudly naming his newest show, “Self-Loving Jew” Yohay Sponder wears his Star of David on his chest. Literally a silver dollar sized Magen Dovid hangs from a chain the way stereotypical gangsters wear dollar sign bling. Yohay has a brutish sort of bite, someone you could find yourself…

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Why People Love Zombies

Why People Love Zombies

Like Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Jodie Comer in the new 28 Years Later film, we are living in a world overrun by the hideous hordes of zombies. The 28 Days Later move franchise lives on, The Walking Dead TV series keeps resurrecting itself, and zombie video games have slaughtered the competition. Bookstores are stocked with titles like Dead…

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Antisemitism in the Field of Mental Health

Antisemitism in the Field of Mental Health

In the wake of October 7th, Veronica Vyasovky, a mental health therapist in private practice, lost about 30% of her clients. “Some of them just dropped off and said, ‘We don’t need therapy right now,’ and some of them were more direct. One woman made an appointment with me with the purpose of yelling at…

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