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Arc: The Podcast

Every other week, Arc Magazine's editor-in-chief, Mark Oppenheimer, is joined by guests to talk religion, politics, et cetera.

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For decades, klezmer musicians have kept traditional Jewish music alive despite war, genocide, and erasure. They’ve done so by playing a small handful of surviving songs again and again. Many more songs—a trove of tunes with the potential to redefine the genre—have sat just out of reach, in a former Soviet archive. This music was unseen, unheard, unknown. But now, newly rescued, it’s transforming the klezmer world, the people who work in it, and our picture of 20th-century Jewish life in a destabilized Europe. Rescued: The Lost Treasures of Klezmer tells the story of that music.

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The fitness regimen CrossFit was created in 2001, using the internet to give out free daily workouts. From the beginning, it was built on a survivalist, militaristic approach. CrossFit claims to train participants as if they were Navy SEALs preparing for disaster, war, or the apocalypse, and it names special workouts after soldiers who have died during the war on terror (“Hero WODs,” or workouts of the day). CrossFit claims to have gyms in 162 countries around the world, including on U.S. military outposts. Greg Glassman, the founder and one-time sole owner of CrossFit, identifies as a college-dropout personal trainer…