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How Freakonomics Author Stephen Dubner Found His Way Back to Judaism

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America at 250: A Jewish Reckoning

Looking around the country today, the America Jews have come to know, appreciate, and love is becoming increasingly unrecognizable. Looking around America today, the country Jews have come to know and love is becoming increasingly unrecognizable. For the past several years, this has played out on a cultural level, as shifting values and eroding institutions […]

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7 Siblings Survived the Holocaust and Emigrated to the US Together
The Webers hid on a German farm for two years, and were separated upon arrival in America.

Eighty years ago, seven Jewish children boarded the first boat out of Bremerhaven, Germany, bound for New York. The Weber siblings were the only family to leave together, without being separated. Alfons, Senta, Ruth, Gertrude, Renee, Judith, and Bela managed to evade capture and stay alive. Born in Berlin to a German Catholic father and […]

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My Cancer Came Back. Here's What I'm Doing About It
After 12 years, my cancer drugs stopped working. Chemo is next. My goal is not to just survive, but to thrive.

After 12 years on targeted cancer therapies, these miracle drugs have finally stopped working for me. My cancer has returned. So what's next? The dreaded chemotherapy. I never thought it would come to this. But I have no intention of merely surviving. My goal is to thrive. The two principles that guide me may not […]

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Why I Left my Dream Career at CNN & HBO

Jamie Geller reveals what it was really like to interview the biggest celebrities in the world and produce some of the hottest shows on television, and why she walked away from it all.

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