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Culture
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How a curator and a rabbi joined forces to keep a piece of Boston’s Jewish history alive
When Chelsea's Orange Street Synagogue shuttered in 1999, the fate of its elegant Torah ark hung in the balance
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Film & TV In HBO’s new Stephen King series, the Holocaust is fuel for jump scares
A prequel to the movie 'It,' the series 'It: Welcome to Derry' uses tales of the Shoah to haunt its Jewish character
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Was the ‘Yiddish Sherlock Holmes’ the first Jewish superhero?
Detective Max Spitzkopf, now in English translation, gave Jews of the 20th century an avenger of their own
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One was born Catholic, another was a West Virginia Protestant — now they’re all making Jewish art
A compelling new exhibit focuses on artists who converted to Judaism
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Film & TV In ‘Coexistence, My Ass!’ the anxiety of an Israeli influencer
Amber Fares' documentary charts the artistic and political evolution of comedian and peace activist Noam Shuster Eliassi
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Looking Forward Why does this Jewish music sound so Christian?
Joe Buchanan sets Jewish prayers and ideas into country ballads — an unusual combo
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Leonard Bernstein wrote a love song to the White House; now it’s an elegy
'Take Care of This House' takes on a new, mournful meaning after the demolition of the East Wing
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Are you a Good Witch or a Bad Witch? Or a Jewitch?
I may not look like a witch, but my son thought otherwise
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Film & TV What the new season of ‘Nobody Wants This’ gets right — and very wrong — about Judaism
The hit rom-com returns, addressing some of the first season's criticisms without taking any of them to heart
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Nobody wants all those menorahs in ‘Nobody Wants This,’ do they?
What the interior decor of 'Nobody Wants This' reveals about its Jewish characters
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Art A revived Jewish Museum spotlights the story of Jewish endurance
The new core exhibition tells a global story of a people shaped by their traditions, and their neighbors
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Opinion The rabbinic backlash against Zohran Mamdani isn’t about Mamdani at all
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Culture How a curator and a rabbi joined forces to keep a piece of Boston’s Jewish history alive
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Fast Forward Alabama man arrested for allegedly planning attacks on synagogues
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Yiddish אַ מוצאי־שבת אין פּאָרטלאַנד, אַ קאַצנשפּרונג פֿונעם „אײַס“־בניןA Saturday night in Portland, very close to the ICE building
שלום בערגער האָט גערעדט סײַ מיט די דעמאָנסטראַנטן קעגן „אײַס“ סײַ מיט די „טראָמפּיסטן“
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