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Culture
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Film & TV In ‘Unfrosted,’ Jerry Seinfeld plays with his food
The Netflix film has the right stuff for adults not ready to grow up
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BINTEL BRIEF Dad wants mom’s ashes scattered in Israel. Should an adult child go to court to stop him?
Bintel turns to Moses and Solomon for guidance. But beneath this feud lies real grief
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Theater Still in the Passover mood? ‘Exagoge’ is your Seder on steroids
Now at La MaMa, an immersive production drawn from the oldest Jewish play
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How Jewish literature and activism shaped the work of Paul Auster
The Brooklyn-based novelist had a 'deep solidarity with his Jewish past.'
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Film & TV Just how accurate is the Peacock series ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz?’
Relying on testimony, the series try to correct some of the elements that caused controversy in Heather Morris' book.
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NASA wants to create a time zone on the moon. Here’s what that means for Jewish space travelers
When Shabbat and the holidays begin and end are by no means the most important questions. It’s deeper than that
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Film & TV In new Israeli Netflix show about fanatical soccer fans, anti-Arab racism is an unspoken companion
Bros follows fans of Israel's Beitar team, whose fanbase is notoriously racist — a fact the show avoids
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Paul Auster, who wrote himself into his bestselling work, dies at 77
Known as a chronicler of Brooklyn, Auster was born in Newark
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How Maurice Sendak’s Jewishness shaped ‘Where the Wild Things Are’
The children's book author was raised by Jews from Poland. A show at the Skirball in LA explores those roots
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Theater ‘It’s my family play.’ David Adjmi on Fleetwood Mac, Led Zeppelin and moving ‘Stereophonic’ to Broadway
Adjmi's play, nominated for 13 Tonys, is about a band's tumultuous act of creation
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How a Jewish son of Prague became a 101-year-old historian of human ideals
Intellectual historian Peter Demetz survived close calls during wartime to become a scholar of German literature
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Theater In the 2024 Tony nominees, a reminder Jews don’t always need to work Jewish
‘Cabaret’ and ‘Prayer for the French Republic’ were both nominated, but antisemitism and Jewish identity are not the major theme
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Opinion I’m a UCLA professor. Why didn’t the administration stop last night’s egregious violence?
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Fast Forward Marjorie Taylor Greene says she opposed antisemitism bill because it rejects ‘Gospel’ that ‘the Jews’ handed Jesus to executioners
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Opinion I teach Israel studies at NYU. We are importing the worst of Israel and Palestine to our campuses
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Fast Forward Why top Democrats oppose bipartisan bill targeting antisemitism in universities
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Looking Forward Why campus protests aren’t helping anyone
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News Leading Jewish groups boycott Education Dept. antisemitism meeting
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News Some colleges are making deals to close pro-Palestinian encampments. Not all of the protests’ critics are happy.
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Yiddish ווידעאָ: רירנדיק חורבן־ליד „גייען זיי אין די שוואַרצע רייען‟ געזונגען פֿון שׂרה גאָרביVIDEO: Haunting Holocaust song “They Go in Dark Rows” performed by Sarah Gorby
צו יום־השואה פּאַסט צו הערן מאַני לייבס ליד, וווּ די ריטמישע פּויק־קלעפּ שפּיגלען אָפּ דעם טרויער