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Barry Horowitz Pats Himself on the Back

by Peter Rubin January 10, 2023January 10, 2023

“Pro wrestling’s most outwardly Jewish performer on his legacy, jabronis, and rules for life.”

A seeded challah loaf, surrounded by the ingredients used to make it: egg yolks, flour, salt, and yeast
Posted inStory

Our Braided Bread

by Benjamin DuBow May 19, 2022January 31, 2023

In my native New York, I don’t feel the need to perfume the air around me with the sweet scent of challah. But here in Iowa, there is a void I need to fill.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Lovers in Auschwitz, Reunited 72 Years Later. He Had One Question.

by Sari Botton December 12, 2019October 19, 2022

The heart-warming story of Holocaust survivors David Wisnia and Helen Spitzer, young lovers at Auschwitz, who got to meet one last time before she died at 100 last year. At the meeting, “Zippi,” as she was known then, revealed she’d used her position as a privileged inmate and a graphic designer at the camp five […]

Posted inNonfiction

In Praise of Del Amitri’s Album Waking Hours

by Longreads December 3, 2019December 30, 2022

Some albums make it hard to separate the music from the experience of listening to it.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Book of Lamentations

by Sari Botton October 28, 2019October 19, 2022

In a collaboration between Longreads and Columbia University Journalism School’s The Delacorte Review, Michael Shapiro returns to Israel after 35 years to visit a grave and find a country.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

An Ocean Away From the Sanctuary of Manhattan, Signs of Peaceful Coexistence

by Longreads July 29, 2019October 19, 2022

As a Jewish New Yorker, Candy Schulman is surprised to find a small town in Andalusia celebrating the coexistence of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish cultures, despite the area’s dark racist history.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction

An Ocean Away From the Sanctuary of Manhattan, Signs of Peaceful Coexistence

by Longreads July 29, 2019October 19, 2022

As a Jewish New Yorker, Candy Schulman is surprised to find a small town in Andalusia celebrating the coexistence of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish cultures, despite the area’s dark racist history.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Liberation: a Love Story (and a Reckoning)

by Sari Botton May 2, 2019October 19, 2022

In this collaboration with the non-profit TMI Project, Rebecca Wong integrates new information into her understanding and appreciation of her grandfather, and how he survived the Holocaust.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Our White Supremacy Problem

by Sari Botton May 2, 2019October 19, 2022

Devin Naar looks at racism and white supremacy that the Jewish community has internalized and passed down through a pecking order — a kind of colorism perpetrated on those Jews less proximal to whiteness, particularly browner-skinned Sephardic Jews.

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Losing the Plot

by Sari Botton December 19, 2018October 19, 2022

A personal essay from our Fine Lines series in which Sari Botton finds that not planning for death is, well, killing her.

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