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So many Jewish stars in this comedy, so few chances for them to shine
'Fantasy Life,' Matthew Shear's directorial debut, features Amanda Peet, Bob Balaban, Zosia Mamet, Judd Hirsch and more
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Could a video game help combat antisemitism on college campuses?
Julia Sebastien wants her PC game, 'StrangeLand,' to become a sort of guide to Jewish life on campus
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Stories of ghosts, grief and Shabbat gladness win top prizes in Jewish children’s literature
The Association of Jewish Libraries announces its Sydney Taylor Book Awards for 2026
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A new exhibit honors writer Lore Segal, a child survivor and lifelong skeptic of easy truths
'And That’s True Too' traces the New Yorker writer’s arc from Kindertransport to Manhattan, where she dazzled with her novels, short stories and children’s books
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Books For the first time since Hitler, a Hebrew publisher sets up shop in Germany
Altneuland Press aims to assert Hebrew as a global language once more
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How yizkor books bring the sights, sounds, and even smells and tastes of lost Jewish shtetls back to life
After the Holocaust, survivors and emigrés documented the ways of life characteristic of their fallen hometowns
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Film & TV At Sundance, the AIDS crisis through the eyes of a bar mitzvah boy
Israeli director Moshe Rosenthal’s ‘Tell Me Everything’ is a memory piece that may jog your memory of a different film
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Books He could have avoided persecution in Nazi Germany — he got bar mitzvahed instead
'Half-Jew — Full Life’ tells the story of Gerd “Pips” Phillipsohn's life before and after Hitler came to power.
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What will become of the Dutch farm school that saved my father from the Nazis?
A plan to create housing and a new memorial center on the site of Holland's 'Werkdorp Wieringermeer' is drawing mixed reviews
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How I learned to laugh at neo-Nazis
'One Battle After Another' was a refreshing satire of white nationalism in a world of didactic lectures
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‘The Pitt’ tackled the trauma of the Tree of Life attack. Here’s how survivors of the synagogue shooting reacted to the episode.
The HBO Max drama evoked the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history to show how trauma's aftereffects endure
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