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Culture In ‘Russian Doll,’ inherited Holocaust trauma spills through generations — via time travel
The mind-bending Netflix hit isn't afraid of diving deep and getting weird in its hallucinatory newest installment.
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Culture Grocery store displays are full of matzo — but none of it is kosher for Passover. Why?
It begs the question: Why does non kosher-for-Pesach matzo even exist?
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Culture Iris Apfel’s bold new H&M fashion launch is perfect for Passover
Iris Apfel is living proof that it’s never too late to follow your dreams. Today, at age 100, she’s launching a fashion collection with retail giant H&M. Yet until she was 84, she’d never worked professionally in fashion as a designer or model; her career was in interior decorating. Her brightly patterned, brazenly clashing outfits…
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Culture Can an all-Mormon cast pull off ‘Fiddler on the Roof’? We traveled to Utah to find out.
There’s a growing trend of Christians interested in Judaism, searching for connection
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Culture How Amy Schumer’s new show makes Judaism look bad
What does it mean to be a Jewish TV show? Sometimes the answer is obvious. Shows like “Shtisel” and “Unorthodox” are set in deeply Jewish communities; “Valley of Tears” and “Our Boys” take on major events from Jewish history. Then there are shows like “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” which seems to scream “THIS IS A…
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Fast Forward Lara Logan says evolution is a false, Jewish-funded conspiracy
Fox News journalist Lara Logan has a history of antisemitism; though she joined Fox News’s streaming service with a program of her own, “Lara Logan Has No Agenda,” right before the pandemic began, even the conservative cable network — known for its hosts’ outlandish takes — distanced itself from the commentator after she compared CDC…
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The Schmooze Timothee Chalamet’s gender-bending Oscar outfit broke rules — and the internet loved it
Everyone agrees that Will Smith slapping and cursing at Chris Rock was the most memorable moment of the 93rd Academy Awards. Somehow, it seems just as widely agreed-upon that Timothee Chalamet’s outfit — a black sequined Louis Vuitton women’s jacket worn with nothing but bony chest and blingy Cartier necklaces underneath it — was the…
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Culture Are public Supreme Court confirmation hearings rooted in antisemitism?
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden’s nominee for the Supreme Court and the first Black woman to be nominated, just completed two days of intense, and at times racially loaded, questioning in front of Congress about her qualifications for the role. In recent years, these widely-publicized hearings have become a form of political theater, with…
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