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Donald Trump wants to ‘try and get to heaven’ — just like Bob Dylan
The president seems to think his soul is on the line with a Ukraine-Russia ceasefire
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Books Steeped in the horrors of post-war Hungary, these are not ordinary Holocaust stories
The characters in Gábor Szántó’s work strive to be understood even when understanding seems impossible and dangerous
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Film & TV ‘Bojack Horseman’ creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg on his new, ‘unapologetically Jewish’ family affair
At the heart of Netflix’s ‘Long Story Short’ is what it means to be a Jew
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It’s Jew vs. Jew in the fight over a Brooklyn bike lane
Hasidic Jews have long wanted to get rid of the bike lane; a Jewish family sued to protect them
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Film & TV Who is Marty Reisman, the Jewish ping-pong star who inspired Timothée Chalamet’s new movie?
Marty Reisman was the inspiration for ‘Marty Supreme,’ the new Timothée Chalamet movie about a Jewish ping-pong star
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Is Taylor Swift’s new album about the tortured lives of artists in communist Russia?
Facing reprobation from the leaders of Trump’s America, Swift makes reference to Marc Chagall and an earlier era of artistic suppression
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The podcasters making antisemitism Christian again
‘TheoBros,’ conservative men obsessed with biblical exegesis, are gaining steam online
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Theater When Walt Disney went South of the Border to fight Nazi influence
The new play ‘The Animals Speak’ details Disney’s 1941 visit to Latin America
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Film & TV How a Kentucky-raised comic dodged a beer can and became a Jewish star
Comedian Ariel Elias dished on her new special and how to skip the line at her favorite cooldown spot
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On a tour of Hasidic Brooklyn, this rabbi doesn’t have all the answers — but he knows who does
Tour guide Mayer Friedman's visitors come from Australia, St. Louis, Texas and beyond, and every one is here for a reason
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Everything’s terrible — but at least there are Moomins
Coming out of WWII, one Finnish author and illustrator created something magical
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Holy Ground This small, stubborn Appalachian synagogue is defying the odds — and so is its new rabbi
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News ADL chief attacks Zohran Mamdani, but gets his facts wrong
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