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Google Inbox may still be invite-only, but the Ku Klux Klan is apparently open to anyone these days. A longtime member of the KKKperhaps the most notorious hate group in [...]

This week, for the first time ever, Claude Lanzmann's 10-hour film epic Shoah will be available online at the SundanceNow Doc Club. Although the documentary, which takes its viewers through [...]

Boardwalk Empire, HBO's Prohibition-era series which ended last night after five seasons, has given viewers fictionalized portraits of several real-life Jewish gangsters over the years. In the show's final seasons, [...]

On Monday evening, protesters gathered outside the Metropolitan Opera in a demonstration against the opening night of The Death of Klinghoffer, an opera that has received much criticism for the [...]

A small crowd filed downstairs into the Liberty Hall at Manhattan's Ace hotel Wednesday for the latest Selected Shorts pop-up reading. The event, organized as a celebration of the New [...]

Last month a new book called Naming Jack the Ripper claimed that the serial killer who targeted London prostitutes in the late 19th century was a 25-year-old Polish Jew named [...]

Say what you will about America, but you can't accuse us of ignoring the elderly. Yesterday, the AP reported that dozens of suspected former Nazis who moved to the U.S. [...]

Episode seven of Boardwalk Empire's fifth season, which aired last night, may have been the most 'Jewish' of the entire series. It was action packed with mezuzah-kissing, Bugsy Siegel's antics, [...]

For the past two seasons of Boardwalk Empire, we've been given small glimpses into the antics of Meyer Lansky associate Bugsy Siegel, played by Michael Zegen. Back in Season 3, [...]

The 62-year old Brooklyn cantor, Baruch Lebovits, who pleaded guilty earlier this year to child molestation, was released on Monday, The Daily News Reports. The Lebovits investigation went on for [...]

This month's Smithsonian features a piece that is almost as fascinating as the final pages of Napoleon's Memorial of Saint Helena: a glimpse into the madness of deputy Führer Rudolf [...]

Early this morning the official trailer for Exodus: Gods and Kings was released on Youtube. The film, as you may have gathered from the title, tells the story of Moses, [...]

If the Boardwalk Empire storyline were to trail into the following decade, we would inevitably be introduced to the dealings of distant Meyer Lansky associate Mickey Cohen. Like most Jewish [...]

Today the AP reports that the Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency, will join its international brethren MI6 and CIA by listing jobs within the agency on a website. It may seem [...]

The seven-year jump to this season of Boardwalk Empire has also meant skipping the bulk of another minor character's entirely criminal activity. Waxey Gordon made appearances in the last few [...]

Self-hating, short Jewish men, take heart: A new company called Shoes by Jews aims to give short men a 3-inch boost using built-in lifts. Videos on the company's website feature [...]

Although it's become clear that 21st century anti-Semitism in Europe is not as unusual a phenomenon as we may have hoped, something strange, if not extraordinary happened in Germany this [...]

On Sunday's episode of Boardwalk Empire, we heard Steve Buscemi's character Nucky Thompson imply that a 'little kike' was behind his assassination attempt. He is, of course, referring to the [...]

As Boardwalk Empire's fifth and final season aired Sunday night, fans learned that it would take place in 1931seven years after the events of the fourth season. While the time [...]

I vividly remember the Israeli soldiers on my Birthright trip watching, bewildered, as I began to pet a cat that had sauntered toward the stoop where we were sitting. Bewildered [...]

Earlier this year, in an act of misguided apologism, the animal rights organization PETA petitioned to have the home of serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer turned into a vegan [...]

Walking over cobblestones on streets lined with monuments commemorating the American Revolution, it is easy to forget that Savannah is a profoundly Jewish city. To someone from New York, the [...]

Last night, Roger Cukierman, the president of the Conseil Représentatif des Institutions Juives de Francebetter known by its acronym, the CRIFspoke to a small audience at the French consulate in [...]

It may surprise you to learn that the World Congress of Russian-speaking Jewry and the Russian Jewish Congress don't exactly see eye-to-eye on certain issues. Yesterday JTA reported that the [...]

About a year ago, on a cold, nearly-sub-zero day in January, I visited Greg Kohfeldt's auto repair shop in New Jersey to inspect and report on an unusual object that [...]

There is a long literary tradition of writers joining the game late in lifedropping everything, changing cities, changing mindsets, quitting jobs in entirely different fields to start writing. Some of [...]

'I was waiting by the crematory oven,' Mark Helprin told me, realizing that the hostess had neglected to lead him to my table at a dimly lit, half-Le Corbusier, half-IKEA [...]

I recognized his voice the moment I heard it. Calm, slightly accented, indolent but melodious, ever so baritone, and though nearly 30 years older than it was on the tracks [...]

The article discusses professional sports free agents and several sporting events which are scheduled to take place in 2014, including Australia's hosting of regular-season Major League Baseball (MLB) games, and three National Football League (NFL) games which will be played in London, England.

The article presents an analysis of the anatomy of the honeybee and its communication habits and life during concerns over colony collapse disorder (CCD) in 2013. Topics include a discussion of the bee's anatomical features including the mandible, the sting, and its two sets of wings, an exploration of the hierarchy of the hive, and an explanation for the honeybee's communicative dances.

The article presents facts on the life cycle of periodical cicadas called magicicadas whose underground developmental phases lasts 17 years, with information on the anatomy of cicadas, their mating habits, and the expected number of cicadas that will swarm in the summer of 2013.

A chart is presented which depicts the various connections between the people on “Time” Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World list in 2013, including singer Christina Aguilera, professional basketball player LeBron James, and television host Jimmy Kimmel.

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