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Culture
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Theater ‘Cabaret’ will wine, dine and destroy you
The immersive Broadway revival lulls you into comfort — to make your stomach turn
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That Passover song about the goat captivated a famous artist who wasn’t Jewish
Frank Stella’s ‘Had Gadya’ series, now at the Skirball in LA, was inspired by a Yiddish picture book
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Theater Hidden in this picture, the murder of 1.1 million Jews
Tectonic Theater Project’s ‘Here There Are Blueberries’ shows the SS enjoying life at Auschwitz
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Peacock’s ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ tackles a Holocaust love story based on real events
'Any kind of love at first sight is surprising, let alone in a context like this,' said lead actor Jonah Hauer-King
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Film & TV How Barbara Walters changed the world
Interviewing the likes of Vladimir Putin, Monica Lewinsky and Fidel Castro, the groundbreaking journalist remade television in her own image
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An exhibit recreating the Oct. 7 Nova Music Festival massacre arrives in NYC
The Nova Musical Festival exhibition, “October 7th, 06:29AM,” debuted in Tel Aviv and will now open in New York
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Music A Transylvanian-American klezmer blues bash right at home at a Brooklyn fiddle summit
The Neighborhood Fiddle Summit brought together a melting pot of musical influences
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Music She ain’t no Dylan Thomas or Patti Smith, this ain’t her ‘Blood on the Tracks,’ but Taylor Swift certainly ain’t no ‘modern idiot’ either
On her latest album, Swift wrestles biblically with the plight of being a tortured poet
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Music A pioneering Jewish rock band got its start in 1965; they’re still slowly and steadily turtling along
Mark Volman, one half of Flo & Eddie, explains the joys and challenges of being part of a human jukebox
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What happens when a free speech group gets boycotted for not speaking out enough
Dozens of authors have withdrawn from PEN America’s literary awards over the Israel-Hamas war
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Film & TV A Jewish sitcom from Britain gets remade in American suburbia — does the joke translate?
‘Dinner with the Parents,’ inspired by the hit show ‘Friday Night Dinner,’ is out now on Freevee
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Bringing Passover back to the town where the Nazis killed our relatives
My friend Sharon and I collaborated with community leaders to restore the memory of Jewish life in Radom, Poland
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Theater Hidden in this picture, the murder of 1.1 million Jews
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Opinion USC: Don’t blame Jews for canceling your valedictorian
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Fast Forward Confidential letter shows Columbia professor who called Hamas attack ‘awesome’ is under investigation
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Fast Forward 2 House members lead the charge to oust the speaker. Both have been accused of trafficking in antisemitism.
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Fast Forward After tumultuous night, Columbia officials extend deadline to dismantle encampment
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Opinion Yes, antisemitism is rising. But pro-Palestinian protests aren’t the real threat to our campuses
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News ‘A culture of harassment’: Hillel’s CEO sees trouble for Jews in new spate of campus clashes
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Culture That Passover song about the goat captivated a famous artist who wasn’t Jewish