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Culture
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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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This Jewish comedy was the summer’s sleeper hit — and you’ve probably never heard of it
'Bad Shabbos' did not get a big theatrical release, but instead was distributed through small theaters and synagogues
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Film & TV Forty years later, we need ‘The Golden Girls’ now more than ever
The hit show's Jewish soul gave humor and heart to issues other shows refused to touch
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Spirituality or intellectualism? An age-old High Holiday debate
Jewish history has always carried a dichotomy between seeking inspiration and pursuing Torah learning
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Books How Carole King moved the earth
Author Jane Eisner on her new book about the singer-songwriter’s endurance
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