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I have seen the future of America — in a pastrami sandwich in Queens
San Wei, which serves pastrami sandwiches along with churros and biang biang noodles, represents an immigrant's fulfillment of the American dream
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Cardinals are Catholic not Jewish — so why do they all wear yarmulkes?
The conclave gathering to elect the next pope are all wearing familiar small hats
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Music Jill Sobule was as much a Jewish icon as a queer one
The late singer-songwriter’s music broached antisemitism, Nazi-fighting and Jesus’ dreidel-spinning
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55 years later, how should we remember the Kent State massacre?
Four students were fatally shot on May 4, 1970 — three of them were Jewish
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Film & TV Netflix’s newest Israeli show has nothing to do with Israel
'Bad Boy' is about juvenile delinquents whose nationality has little to do with their trauma
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10 duets Barbra Streisand and Bob Dylan should have chosen for her upcoming album
Dylan and Streisand are joining forces for 'The Very Thought of You,' but the choices on this playlist might have been better
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Alfred Dreyfus was not the man you think he was — and the history of Jews in France is a little different too
A new exhibit at France's Museum of the Art and History of Judaism debunks some clichés about Dreyfus and Jewish history
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A subreddit notorious for Holocaust denial is back online — now as a memorial
Redditors brought infamous subreddit r/holocaust back to life as a place for education about the Holocaust
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What a lion, a rabbi, and a dog taught me about grief
Americans have long mourned their animals. Judaism doesn’t give us a script — so we write our own
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Music After decades of waiting, we’re finally getting a Bob Dylan-Barbra Streisand duet
The two legends will join in song for Babs’ new album of duets
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Art How a Lower East Side Jew conquered the multiverse
A retrospective of Marvel and DC artist Jack Kirby shows the ripples of his influence
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Film & TV In ‘The Rehearsal,’ Nathan Fielder fights the removal of his Holocaust fashion episode
Challenging German censorship, the auteur hits on a paradox of German memory culture
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Fast Forward Why the Antisemitism Awareness Act now has a religious liberty clause to protect ‘Jews killed Jesus’ statements
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Fast Forward The invitation said, ‘No Jews.’ The response from campus officials, at least, was real.
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Fast Forward Halal restaurant opening in Congress is like ‘Muslim conquest of Jerusalem,’ says GOP congressman
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Fast Forward Germany formally classifies far-right AfD party as extremist, in blow to Nazi-linked populist movement
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Fast Forward Trump taps shock jock Sid Rosenberg and a Haredi newspaper publisher for Holocaust Memorial Council
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