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For those with mixed families, Israel-Hamas war complicates already difficult terrain

By Tara Abhasakun — April 9, 2024
(RNS) — Since Oct. 7, writers who have both Palestinian and Jewish relatives are navigating polarizing arguments among family and friends as well as reexamining their own identities.

Appreciation: Philip Roth belongs in canon of greatest American authors

By G. Jeffrey MacDonald — May 23, 2018
(RNS) — Roth was a literary archaeologist who dug deep into his imagination and memory to re-create the American Jewish milieu of his youth.

Philip Roth, acclaimed and controversial novelist who probed Jewish themes, dies at 85

By Kimberly Winston — May 23, 2018
(RNS) — Though Roth was an avowed atheist, Judaism was a perennial theme in much of his work.

Philip Roth and his Jewish people

By Lauren Markoe — October 10, 2016
(RNS) Philip Roth has not 'come home' to the Jewish community. He never really left, writes Rabbi A. James Rudin.
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