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Culture
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Why small town Jews buried their dead in big cities — and what those journeys reveal today
Funeral trains linked isolated Jews to larger communities, revealing how belonging could stretch across counties, rail lines, and faiths
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Art It’s time to reconsider what we know about Jewish birthing rituals
At the Museum on Eldridge Street, ‘First Light: Birth in the Jewish Tradition’ merges tradition with modern understandings of birthing customs
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Looking Forward My favorite Christmas scene in literature — and why it makes me feel so Jewish
Louisa May Alcott's 'Eight Cousins' is set in a distinctly un-Jewish milieu, but I saw myself on the page all the same
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Film & TV A lackluster exhibit gives short shrift to Claude Lanzmann’s legacy — and to the Shoah’s victims
‘Voices from the Shoah Tapes’ at The New York Historical is a pale shadow of a proper tribute in Berlin
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Film & TV ‘Marty Supreme’ is an outstanding celebration — and indictment — of chutzpah
Josh Safdie's period epic sees Timothée Chalamet vying for ping-pong supremacy
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Film & TV In ‘The Secret Agent,’ a peek into Brazilian Jewish history — and a warning against propaganda
Set during the Brazilian dictatorship of the late 20th century, a fugitive meets a Holocaust survivor mistaken for a Nazi.
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Theater The Jewish playwright who inspired Tom Stoppard to write his Holocaust history
Arthur Schnitzler’s Austria was a major influence on ‘Leopoldstadt’
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Film & TV Israel’s 2025 Oscar entry is a story of grief, sex and looming national tragedy
Tom Nesher’s ‘Come Closer’ is premiering in New York
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Film & TV Why do people want ‘Zootopia 2’ to be about Israel?
Should we read anything into cartoon lynxes who control the government and the weather?
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She was a dancer who leapt to the top of her field — then the Trump administration fired her
Former Kennedy Center dance director Jane Raleigh is still trying to choreograph her next steps
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How a troublemaking private school dropout became the Johnny Appleseed of tech
Sure, Tekserve founder David Lerner could be difficult, but he was also the consummate mensch
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In Case You Missed It
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News Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes admits ‘at least 6 million’ Jews were killed in Nazi Germany
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Fast Forward Final assailant charged in 2021 antisemitic assault of Joey Borgen sentenced to 2 years in prison
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Opinion Why an exhibit that honors the Oct. 7 hostages still draws crowds in the US, even after their release
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Yiddish צוויי ייִדישע דיכטער וואָס באַזינגען נאַטור פֿון רײַסן ביז אַפֿריקעTwo Yiddish poets who celebrated nature from Belarus to Africa
מע האָט לעצטנס איבערגעזעצט צוויי וויכטיקע ווערק פֿון די ווילנער פּאָעטן משה קולבאַק און אַבֿרהם סוצקעװער
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