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Film & TV Can ‘September 5,’ a film about Israeli hostages in a time of Israeli hostages, survive the news cycle?
Tim Fehlbaum’s film about the Munich massacre is hard to separate from today’s headlines
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Film & TV Bonhoeffer biopic tells of a pastor turned would-be Hitler assassin — but is the story true?
The Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Todd Komarnicki's new film strays troublingly from the historical record
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BINTEL BRIEF My classmate won’t shut up about Israel and is spreading antisemitic conspiracies. What do I do?
Bintel Brief helps a college student figure out how to handle a troublesome classmate
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Film & TV In a startling new documentary about Netanyahu’s corruption, eerie echoes of Trump
In never-before-seen police interrogation footage, Benjamin Netanyahu's secrets come to light.
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United across time, two superhero artists join forces to fight bigotry
Trenton Doyle Hancock confronts Philip Guston at the Jewish Museum
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How antisemitic was Joseph Conrad, author of ‘Heart of Darkness’ and ‘The Secret Agent’?
The author was known to disparage Jews, yet sometimes he was also thought to be one
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How a son of Holocaust survivors joined a commune and helped to free ‘Hurricane’ Carter
Compassion for the underdog has been a constant theme in the life of Sam Chaiton
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Was a ravishing, fictional heroine inspired by a real-life Jewish philanthropist?
Following in the footsteps of Sir Walter Scott, a novelist seeks the inspiration for Rebecca of Ivanhoe
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Is RFK about to ban goyslop — and what on earth is that?
Online, an antisemitic term for low-quality food has gone mainstream in the wake of RFK's war on Big Food
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A Jewish snowman movie would have made a lot more sense than Netflix’s ‘Hot Frosty’
We have a whole mythology about reanimating natural materials — the golem!
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In the shadows of Nazi viciousness, an unlikely story of love and heroism blooms
Adriana Allegri's debut novel 'The Sunflower House' was inspired by a real-life Lebensborn institution
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An Israeli woman in playing Mary in a Netflix movie — and the outcry is getting weird
Debates over whether Israelis or Palestinians are racially closer to Mary feel kind of like eugenics
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