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Culture
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In my Passover memories, the magnolia trees of Brooklyn are always in bloom
When I was growing up in Borough Park, springtime arrived with the scent of latkes and blossoming trees
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Film & TV An Israeli dissident filmmaker finds tainted love amid the Gaza rubble
Nadav Lapid's ‘Yes’ takes on the war, art and the soul of a nation
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For this unconventional Jewish organization, tradition takes a back seat to community
With its mostly online and often atypical programming, Judaism Unbound wants to bring egalitarian Jewish life into the 21st century
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One’s Israeli and one’s Palestinian — can these two restaurants coexist peacefully in the shadow of Columbia University?
The owners of Miznon and Hinds Hall Ayat say the focus of their new locations is culinary, not political
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Books In 3 centuries of Southern Jewish life in the Big Easy, no easy way to be Jewish
Nicholas Lemann’s ‘Returning’ is a sprawling family history of the limits of assimilation
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Theater Roald Dahl’s monstrous views have a seat at the table today
The play ‘Giant,’ about Dahl’s antisemitism, is chilling for how close it matches contemporary talking points on Israel and Jews
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It’s getting more dangerous to be a comedian — but was it ever safe?
Jacques Berlinerblau's new book examines the limits of free speech in an era of ideological contention and internet virality
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Looking Forward We need to talk about New Jersey’s Jewish master of literature. No, not that one
Philip Roth and Judy Blume are both giants of American Jewish literature — so why do we put them in different classes?
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Move over Thomas Edison, this deli savant is the Garden State’s newest inventor
In his Jersey City lab, Jason Stahl and his alter-ego Hank Schwartz whip up mind-blowing variations on Jewish deli standards
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The Nazis didn’t care that Paul Klee wasn’t Jewish
Sketches from the last decade of the lauded artist's life, exhibited for the first time in the US at the Jewish Museum, change how we understand his work
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A brilliant Jewish storyteller may be gone, but her characters are ‘still talking’
Lore Segal's posthumous short story collection once again shows her mastery of the form
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