Samuel Eli Shepherd is a culture journalist and a digital reporting and editing intern at the Forward. He can be reached at [email protected].
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By Samuel Eli Shepherd
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Theater A zombie story about the Holocaust? This audio drama makes it work.
The dead come alive as a parable for Holocaust memory in an unorthodox new audio mini-series
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A conversation with Shelly Jay Shore on their debut novel, 'Rules For Ghosting.'
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A recent Tu B’Av party on the Upper West Side saw singles seeking out soulmates with like-minded views
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A look into the socialist Jewish summer camp origins of the campy musical theater hit
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The online backlash against the video game source material and its Israeli-American co-creator, explained
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