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Culture
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I want Judd Hirsch to win an Oscar — but not like this
Hirsch is one of our great actors, but his super Jew-y performance in 'The Fabelmans' is not his best work
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How Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford changed the way we are
50 years ago, 'The Way We Were' brought us a love story we hadn't seen on screen before
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How film brought Nazis to justice at Nuremberg
'Filmmakers for the Prosecution' shows how two Jewish brothers searched Europe for evidence of the Holocaust
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Film & TV For Paul Newman’s 98th birthday, his lost cinematic masterpiece
Until the Forward tracked it down, "On the Harmfulness of Tobacco" had been all but forgotten
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Two very different Jewish couples confront a very similar sense of dissatisfaction
Anna Ziegler's 'The Wanderers' arrives off-Broadway, starring Katie Holmes
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In savaging the Israeli military, has a legendary puppet theater finally gone too far?
For even some longtime supporters, the politics at Bread and Puppet Theater have gotten too strident
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Scrub Daddy’s viral sponges come in kosher options now
The thirsty TikTok scrubber partnered with Jewish TikToker Melinda Strauss
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How the horrors of WWII turned the righteous into heroes
In Richard Hurowitz's 'Garden of the Righteous,' normal, decent people face extraordinary dangers to become rescuers
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How the consummate Jewish intellectual remained ‘one of the most cheerful Jewish men in the word’
Revered editor and publisher Victor Navasky has died at the age of 90
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Sundance documentary ‘Under G-d’ details the Jewish legal response to the Dobbs decision
Rabbis and Jewish organizations are helping lead lawsuits across the country against Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, alleging their religious freedom has been infringed upon
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In season 4 of ‘Fauda,’ Israeli tactics come under fire — and so do the show’s heroes
Doron and his crew reach a breaking point, but is it believable?
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In Kafka’s diaries, harsh criticism and sympathetic fascination for his fellow Jews
Newly translated diaries shed light on the author's views on Jewish culture and customs
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Culture In season 4 of ‘Fauda,’ Israeli tactics come under fire — and so do the show’s heroes
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Fast Forward ‘Saturday Night Live’ mocks George Santos’ Jewish claims
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Culture Why Bob Dylan’s haunting comeback album sounds just as Jewish as it ever did
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Culture What David Crosby taught me when he kicked me out of his hotel room
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