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Culture
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Is there life after Lubavitch?
In his memoir 'Brooklyn Odyssey,' ex-Hasidic sociologist Schneur Zalman Newfield turns his gaze inward
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Does Jewish law say it’s OK to lie to the high-roller who wants to manage your rock ‘n’ roll band?
He asked if I was a 'stallion or a gelding' — the real question was if I was a mensch or a mouse
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What Carrie Prejean Boller tells us about Christian Zionism in the US
The former model was removed from the Religious Liberty Commission over her comments on Jews and Israel
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Books Art theft, angels and neo-Nazis force a reckoning with the past in ‘The Tavern at the End of History’
The characters in Morris Collins’ novel turn to history and mysticism to grapple with tragedies
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Why Bad Bunny’s halftime show delighted New York Jews of a certain age
The Jewish love affair with Latin music and ‘Nueva Yol’ dates back to mambo dancing in the Catskills and stories of a shared diaspora
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These two anti-Zionist Jews think the Israeli government is so bad, it’s funny
Matt Lieb and Daniel Maté, co-hosts of comedy podcast ‘Bad Hasbara,' try to put a humorous spin on a serious subject
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Can Manischewitz make matzo ball soup hot again?
The age-old brand ran an art show in an attempt to build cool-kid hype for Jewish brands
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The PBS series ‘Black and Jewish America’ gets it right — except the Black and Jewish part
The documentary traces years of alliance and rupture — but its false binary perpetuates stereotypes
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Looking Forward Why am I so much better at singing in Hebrew than in English?
Solving a mystery from my bat mitzvah, two decades later
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Created in hiding during WWII, a Jewish artist’s underground ’zines are finally rising to the surface
From 1943 to 1945, Curt Bloch produced 96 editions of a satirical publication he called 'The Underwater Cabaret'
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Theater The Jew who put Hitler on trial — and the play that stages his story
The new play ‘Hans Litten: The Jew Who Cross-Examined Hitler’ recounts the little-known story of a young lawyer’s crusade
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