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Fenton historian Allie Seibert investigates five historical murder cases from 1879 to 1931, including the notorious Flint case of Helen Morgan who killed her ex-lover in a cemetery.

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The esteemed critic Harold Bloom, a native speaker of Yiddish, called Chaim Grade one of the four greatest writers in the ...

Passover, a Jewish celebration of freedom from slavery in Egypt, is celebrated in April. Jewish families will once again come together to celebrate a Seder meal. Here is what you need to know about ...

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Civil War America, a small number of Jewish slaveowners defended the practice. Other prominent Jews joined with abolitionists ...

Author Dara Horn explores Jewish time and memory in her new middle-grade graphic novel "One Little Goat: A Passover ...

If there were any contender for a real-life equivalent to the Oliphaunts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it would be ...