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Books
They nurtured the fantasies of millions of readers — did they also pave the way for Donald Trump?
In Michael Grynbaum's latest book, magazine moguls Si Newhouse Jr. and Alexander Liberman preside over the creation of a tastemaking empire
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Why is the Department of Homeland Security quoting the Bible on Instagram?
Christian nationalism has become an overt motivation for Trump's deportation efforts
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Film & TV The new ‘Superman’ is being called anti-Israel, but does that make it pro-Palestine?
James Gunn tackles a fictional international crisis, but doesn't give its Middle Eastern-coded characters much dignity.
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Film & TV Does the ‘Superman’ twist ruin his Jewish roots?
James Gunn’s changed origin for the character comes uncomfortably close to antisemitic talking points
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Film & TV Elmo went on an antisemitic tirade — and it strangely isn’t the first time
The beloved Muppet’s X account was hacked
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Books This Jazz Age nightclub launched Rudy Vallée, silenced a Jewish tenor — and hosted boozy prohibition soirées with Amelia Earhart
The Heigh-Ho was co-founded by George Palmer Putnam who fell hard for America's most beloved aviator
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‘If Yiddish isn’t safe at Brandeis, where is it safe?’
Brandeis planned to put its Yiddish program 'on hiatus' — until the Yiddish community spoke out.
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Disney fixed a Messianic necklace, but there’s still work to do on Jewish representation, says advocate
A Jewish character on 'Mickey Mouse Funhouse' no longer wears a necklace with a Jesus fish
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Books After 40 years in Jerusalem, everything has changed except one man’s love for it
'A Rooftop in Jerusalem’ follows one man’s relationship with the city as its politics and landscape change.
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Film & TV ‘Jaws’ has been secretly Jewish for half a century
The documentary ‘Jaws @ 50’ dives into Steven Spielberg’s agony and ecstasy on the open sea
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Mazel to the power of Tov — my lifelong friendship with Richard Greenberg
My friend, the great playwright, was blessed with irony, wit and remarkable kindness
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Fast Forward Tucker Carlson calls for stripping citizenship from Americans who served in the Israeli army
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News Meet the Jews who helped elect Zohran Mamdani
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Opinion This German word explains Trump’s authoritarian impulses — and Hitler’s rise to power
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Fast Forward Zohran Mamdani reportedly tells business leaders he will ‘discourage’ the phrase ‘globalize the intifada’
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Fast Forward Mike Huckabee denounces killing of Palestinian-American in the West Bank as ‘terrorist act’
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Fast Forward Andrew Cuomo lists several Jewish endorsements on his website. But do they still apply?
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Fast Forward Antisemitic memes fail to disqualify Elon Musk’s ‘MechaHitler’ bot from Department of Defense contract
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