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Culture
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They were a kosher bakery success story — 80 years later, people are still trying to make a buck off their babka
The tale of Schick's Bakery is one of 20th-century ingenuity and 21st-century capitalism
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An Israeli woman in playing Mary in a Netflix movie — and the outcry is getting weird
Debates over whether Israelis or Palestinians are racially closer to Mary feel kind of like eugenics
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Has Mark Zuckerberg become the anti-Elon Musk?
A facepalm-worthy rap cover from Zuck sets him apart from Musk's recent antics
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Why is the latest Jesus movie about, uh, mixed martial arts?
The prince of peace himself is not the only muscular Christian in 'The Carpenter'
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Film & TV John Garfield and Paul Newman could have been contenders in ‘On the Waterfront’
A new book on Elia Kazan’s 1954 classic suggests the film that might have been — without Brando
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Theater They created a musical about the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Today’s activists are listening
"We Live in Cairo," now playing at the New York Theatre Workshop, takes on new resonance in light of pro-Palestinian protests
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How a Jewish deep-sea diver found treasure, shipwrecks and Leonard Bernstein
Howard Rosenstein came to Israel with $500 and found a life of adventure and innovation
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Theater In this ‘Merchant of Venice,’ tragedy tomorrow, comedy tonight
Igor Golyak’s production brings the show back to a comedic mode the way Shakespeare intended — to make a point about antisemitism
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Trump plans to reinstate school prayer. Our readers remember times Christianity came up in class
Tales of being forced to sing Christmas carols and recite the Lord's Prayer abound
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Art Hidden in plain sight, a Holocaust memorial takes on new significance
New York artist Harriet Feigenbaum, 85, says her work is more relevant than ever
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A ‘sci-fi documentary’ dreaming of peace got banned in Israel. Why?
'Lyd' follows turmoil in the controversial city, but also imagines an alternate, peaceful reality
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Politics Did JD Vance mean to quote the wisdom of a serial killer from a Coen Brothers film?
The vice president-elect praised the wisdom of Anton Chigurh from Cormac McCarthy’s ‘No Country for Old Men’
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