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The rom-com is a messy meditation on American Jewry
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For ill and for good, this ‘Wicked’ song has become ubiquitous
Sung at graduations, funerals and retirement parties, Stephen Schwartz's 'For Good' is now the 'Hallelujah' of showtunes
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Her parents fled Mexico and Mandatory Palestine, taking their traumas with them
In the documentary ‘Traces of Home,’ Colette Ghunim grapples with the burdens she hoped she'd never have to face
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The cheesy way to do teshuvah
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At Grossinger’s in the Catskills, Jews learned how to be American
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Amy Goodman has been a fearless journalist for more than four decades; she says her Jewish roots made her that way
The documentary ‘Steal This Story, Please!’ shows Goodman’s journey to co-founding ‘Democracy Now!’ and her plans to keep fighting censorship
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Is ‘Nuremberg’ the Holocaust movie we need right now?
A new film focuses on the relationship between Hermann Goering and his psychiatrist, Douglass Kelley
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‘Eid,’ the first Israeli feature directed by a Bedouin, is a heartfelt portrait of an artist
Yousef Abo Madegem’s film is an intimate glimpse at an oft-overlooked segment of Israel
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On the trail of a priceless dove, a group of Palestinians and Israelis find that peace is for the birds
In 'Bella,' a man must navigate Israel’s borders to get back his father’s prized dove
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Israel’s Oscar entry is, once again, about Palestinians
Shai Carmeli-Pollak’s ‘The Sea’ swept the Ophirs and irked Israel’s Ministry of Culture
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As long as there are movies about Nazis, there will be movies about the art they looted
'Auction,' which concerns the provenance of an Egon Schiele painting, is only the latest film about Nazi-looted art
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