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70 years ago, this Jewish choreographer predicted our epidemic of loneliness and isolation
'Rooms,' which premiered in 1955, was inspired by the Lower East Side tenements of Anna Sokolow's youth
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Gene Shalit, a mensch with a personality as big as his mustache, turns 100
An aficionado of Jewish humor, the 'Today Show' personality was always more of a champion than a critic
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Looking Forward How a song about the food chain became a Seder mainstay
'Chad Gadya’ is a reminder of our mortality — and the promise it may be temporary
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This isn’t Barbra Streisand’s ‘Yentl’ — it isn’t I.B. Singer’s either
In a new production currently playing in London, Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Yeshiva boy makes an awkward transition to the Yiddish stage
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Oct. 7 changed Howard Jacobson. But his new novel is as defiant as ever.
'Howl' is a pointed, humorous critique of the British anti-Zionist movement
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In 1989, Harold Pinter and Jerry Schatzberg made the perfect Holocaust movie for 2026
Almost four decades after its premiere, 'Reunion' is a masterful look at how civil society disintegrates
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Art Stitched in faith, woven in memory, these precious artifacts bind Jews to their history
An exhibit of Torah binders shows the symbolic and functional aspect of Jewish ritual objects
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Israel closed the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and set off a Holy Week firestorm
Concerns over Israel's treatment of its Christian residents have been chipping away at American support for the state
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Books How New York Jews made pickles a big dill
‘The Pickled City’ is an ode to the humble kosher cuke
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Art While sculpting Jesus, this Jewish artist wrestled with his demons
In ‘Jimmy & the Demons,’ James Grashow confronted mortality as he finished his last big project
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America’s oldest synagogue closed. Then an unlikely group tended its cemetery.
For decades after its congregation faded, one of America’s oldest Jewish cemeteries endured — preserved by both Christians and Jews
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