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Looking Forward
Stumbling across Jewish history in a vintage store
Abram Krol, a Polish-Jewish artist, explored his experience of Judaism and the Holocaust in his art
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Film & TV Remembering Siskel and Ebert’s great debate: Mel Brooks or Woody Allen?
In 1980 the critics sparred over whose films were better — it’s an eerie watch in 2026
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A farewell to Hampshire College, site of my Yiddish awakening
For the Forward's archivist, the 1980's in Amherst, Massachusetts, was a little like 'Yentl' come to life
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A chance for the descendants of Holocaust victims to reclaim a piece of the past
The Center for Jewish History's 'Histories and Mysteries' project seeks to solve Nazi-era cold cases
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Music In Elie Wiesel’s latter years, he and I discussed the effects of the Holocaust. Those conversations are now an opera.
'The Dialogue of Memories,' based on conversations between Wiesel and Howard Reich premieres next month in Seattle
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A moving tribute to Soviet Jewry, with uncomfortable contemporary echoes
Yiddish Glory's follow-up to its Grammy-nominated debut album holds up a mirror to our own age
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Film & TV He committed murder today. Or maybe yesterday. He doesn’t know.
A new film adaptation of Albert Camus' 'The Stranger' finds the world as strange and absurd as it ever was.
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Film & TV He saved dozens of kids in Auschwitz — and kept it a secret for nearly the rest of his life
The PBS documentary ‘The Last Twins’ tells the story of Erno Spiegel, who was targeted by Josef Mengele and protected the young people subjected to the Nazi doctor's experiments.
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The Pentagon fears the Vatican’s authority in a battle over Christianity’s power
Warmongers leery of the pope’s wartime peace-preaching confronted a cardinal — revealing weakness in the face of moral force
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Books A new book explores the vibrancy of pre-war Warsaw
'The Last Woman of Warsaw' follows two women as antisemitism begins to rise in Poland
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Film & TV Jonah Hill’s cancel culture dramedy makes an antisemitism exception — all about Kanye
‘Outcome’ gives pride of place to the rapper, whose bigotry has hampered him (to a point)
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