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How Ava Gardner found her home in a Jewish milieu
The star of 'The Barefoot Contessa' and 'Show Boat' would have turned 100 this year
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Yes, this woman really did make the greatest film of all time. Next question?
Chantal Akerman's 'Jeanne Dielman' was recently enshrined by the BFI 'Sight and Sound' poll. Rightly so.
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To know what Saul Bellow thinks of cancel culture, read his work (or watch this film)
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How a professor of Hitler studies got Spielberged when the unfilmable was filmed
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In this overlooked documentary, the son of Holocaust survivors embarks on a seemingly impossible mission
In 'The Presence of Their Absence,' Fred Zaidman searches for evidence of his family's lost story
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Was Josef K. only guilty of the crime of being Jewish?
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They hate to see a girlboss getting divorced: ‘My Unorthodox Life’ is back
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How a Jewish family saved Thomas Jefferson’s home
'The Levys of Monticello' focuses on a Sephardic clan who, like the country's 3rd president, enslaved people
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Haredi Jews won a legal battle against conversion therapy — a new film shows the fight’s not over
‘Queer and Frum’ explores life after coming out
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‘We enjoy being in shul together’: Tony Kushner talks about his friendship with Steven Spielberg
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