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A compelling horror series from Israel — even if you don’t like horror movies
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Dear internet: Having Jews in movies isn’t ‘Zionist propaganda’
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How the Jewish Museum brought Black film history to new audiences
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In ‘Black and Jewish America,’ Henry Louis Gates Jr explores the history of Black-Jewish partnership and conflict
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When Catherine O’Hara delivered the perfect Purim spiel
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The documentary covers the grandmaster’s barrier-breaking career and sidelines a key piece of where she came from
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At Sundance, the AIDS crisis through the eyes of a bar mitzvah boy
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She thought she knew her mother. Then she learned about the concentration camp
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A Jewish lawyer sued Henry Ford and changed how we think about hate speech
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