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In her inspired and inspiring history of the Jewish Bund, Molly Crabapple has found her anti-Zionist heroes for our time
Though written for this political moment, 'Here Where We Live Is Our Country' is more of a history and a tribute than a handbook
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Film & TV This Christian conversion comedy should have left Jews out of it
In 'Premarital,' a Christian family tries to convert their secular son-in-law
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The original anti-Zionists have been all but forgotten. Molly Crabapple wants to change that.
in 'Here Where We Live Is Our Country,' the artist and journalist offers a family memoir and a history of the Jewish Bund.
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Two women race to save Persian Jewish music before it fades
Using tapes of their grandfathers singing in Iran, Galeet Dardashti and Jacqueline Rafii are transcribing and adapting songs that echo centuries of tradition
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70 years ago, this Jewish choreographer predicted our epidemic of loneliness and isolation
'Rooms,' which premiered in 1955, was inspired by the Lower East Side tenements of Anna Sokolow's youth
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Gene Shalit, a mensch with a personality as big as his mustache, turns 100
An aficionado of Jewish humor, the 'Today Show' personality was always more of a champion than a critic
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Looking Forward How a song about the food chain became a Seder mainstay
'Chad Gadya’ is a reminder of our mortality — and the promise it may be temporary
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This isn’t Barbra Streisand’s ‘Yentl’ — it isn’t I.B. Singer’s either
In a new production currently playing in London, Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Yeshiva boy makes an awkward transition to the Yiddish stage
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Oct. 7 changed Howard Jacobson. But his new novel is as defiant as ever.
'Howl' is a pointed, humorous critique of the British anti-Zionist movement
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In 1989, Harold Pinter and Jerry Schatzberg made the perfect Holocaust movie for 2026
Almost four decades after its premiere, 'Reunion' is a masterful look at how civil society disintegrates
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Art Stitched in faith, woven in memory, these precious artifacts bind Jews to their history
An exhibit of Torah binders shows the symbolic and functional aspect of Jewish ritual objects
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