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Never mind The Godfather: these are the James Caan classics you need to watch

The son of refugees from Nazi Germany, he played up his bruising apprenticeship in the pool halls and played down his career as a college football player and acting student

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American actor James Caan on the set of the film 'Rollerball', in which he plays the hero Jonathan E., UK, August 1974. (Photo by John Downing/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

circa 1960: The Hollerith tabulator and sorter box, invented by Herman Hollerith and used in the 1890 United States census. It 'read' cards by passing them through electrical contacts. Closed circuits, which indicated hole positions, could then be selected and counted. His Tabulating Machine Company (1896) was a predecessor to the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM). (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Are Jews white? Inside US census wars

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Supreme Court - Federal Court Vaccine Mandates

Abortion ruling lays bare a fault line in the community

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Only in New York is a Yeshiva not religious

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Great Jewish thinker Robert D Kaplan saw the anarchy coming. So what makes him an optimist now?

The traveller, strategist and historian says there’s a new realism in the Middle East and the Americans having less prestige is encouraging the regional players to try to deal with their problems in their own right

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June 16, 2022 11:27

Great Jewish thinker Robert D Kaplan saw the anarchy coming. So what makes him an optimist now?

Biden's Iran dream has collapsed under the weight of reality

If the Iranian regime ever intended to submit to a revived nuclear treaty, they have no incentive to do so now

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June 9, 2022 12:41

Robert Malley, Biden administration special envoy for Iran, testifies about the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) during a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations on Capitol Hill May 25, 2022, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Americans have always loved righteous violence, and many of them still believe in its healing properties

It is hard not to see a connection between the speed they mobilise for war abroad and their tolerance for military-grade violence at home

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June 1, 2022 10:38

UVALDE, TEXAS - MAY 26: Law enforcement officers stand looking at a memorial following a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School on May 26, 2022 in Uvalde, Texas. According to reports, 19 students and 2 adults were killed, with the gunman fatally shot by law enforcement. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

A great episode of Jews in the city: The Celebrate Israel parade returns for the first time in three years

Thousands of Jewish pedestrians walked down the middle of New York's Fifth Avenue waving Israeli flags

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May 26, 2022 13:50

NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 02: New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo marches in the Celebrate Israel Parade moments after he condemn the rise of anti semitism across the United States on June 2, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)

Meet the Palestine activist who likes playing with fire

When she was still a young law student, Nerdeen Kiswani filmed herself apparently threatening to torch a man’s IDF sweatshirt while he was wearing it

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May 19, 2022 12:34

Meet the Palestine activist who likes playing with fire

Ed Koch, the Jewish king of New York who had to keep his private life a secret

James Kirchick’s groundbreaking new book lifts the lid on the former Mayor of New York City’s life

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May 12, 2022 12:23

NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 18: Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch speaks during the celebration of his 85th Birthday at the Bryan Cave LLP Celebration at the St. Regis Hotel on November 18, 2009 in New York City. (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Bryan Cave LLP)

Harvard opts for BDS — so take me out to the ball game for tefillin

United? The USA is as divided as ever with its most prestigious university's newspaper backing the boycott movement while a baseball star's father openly practises the Jewish custom

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May 6, 2022 15:03

Harvard opts for BDS — so take me out to the ball game for tefillin

Tolerance is on trial in this furore at New York law school

“Israel is an Apartheid regime”, according to New York University Law School’s branch of Students for Justice in Palestine

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April 28, 2022 14:19

Tolerance is on trial in this furore at New York law school

When it comes to the crunch... my matzah must come from Leeds

I didn’t want spelt matzah from Streit or Manischewitz..., I want the real thing - a stack of red Rakusen’s

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April 21, 2022 14:42

When it comes to the crunch... my matzah must come from Leeds

The Satmar shtetl as American as apple pie

Kiryas Joel, rather than being a European hangover, might be the Jewish American future

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April 14, 2022 15:37

Orthodox Jews of the Satmar Hasidim dance in the village of Kiryas Joel, New York, May 14, 2017, during celebrations for the Jewish holiday of Lag BaOmer, marking the anniversary of the death of Talmudic sage Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai approximately 1,900 years ago. / AFP PHOTO / EDUARDO MUNOZ ALVAREZ (Photo credit should read EDUARDO MUNOZ ALVAREZ/AFP via Getty Images)

As her Grammys appearance showed, Doja is the 21st century's Tin Pan Alley cat

My teenage informants tell me that Doja Cat is a skilled crafter of the 'memeable hooks' which helped her “blow up” on TikTok. Her performance last Sunday, was, I’m told, a 'massive bop'

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April 7, 2022 12:16