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Film & TV
They fled from Gaza to Egypt — will they ever find their way back home?
Like Jewish Zionists, the Palestinians in the documentary ‘Who Is Still Alive' yearn to be in their spiritual homeland.
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A new documentary shows what it looks like when Hasidic education fails
New documentary 'Unorthodox Education' explores what happens after children leave the yeshiva world
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Music How the descendant of a notorious Jewish pirate became a swashbuckling rock ’n’ roll legend
Roxy Music's Phil Manzanera has crossed swords with Bryan Ferry, Brian Eno and Bob Dylan
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Theater An unprecedented, and unfinished, work of Yiddish scholarship is now an opera
‘The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language’ chronicles a quest to save a forgotten world
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Pleading with God, pleading with Social Security
For this author, the High Holiday prayer Hineni has special resonance now
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Film & TV Robert Redford’s legacy is surprisingly Jewish
The actor and director shared the screen with Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand and Paul Newman
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Theater A new play asks: What if the biblical matriarchs lived today?
‘The Matriarchs’ challenges audiences to accept life’s uncertainties — and imagines what Leah and Rebecca would’ve studied in college.
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Music Bob Dylan, my mother, and the unknown painter behind ‘Blood on the Tracks’
Dylan once said that Norman Raeben was the man who 'taught me how to see'
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Theater How often does Tim Blake Nelson think about ancient Greece?
The actor-writer-director talks about his new play, Kafka and antisemitism
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Books To play in the orchestra in Auschwitz was a gruesome affair, but it was better than the alternative
Anne Sebba traces the grim history of 'The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz'
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Charlie Kirk kept a ‘Jewish Sabbath.’ What did he mean by that?
The conservative influencer was due to publish a book on a tech-free Shabbat this December
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