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What happens when a free speech group gets boycotted for not speaking out enough
Dozens of authors have withdrawn from PEN America’s literary awards over the Israel-Hamas war
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Film & TV A Jewish sitcom from Britain gets remade in American suburbia — does the joke translate?
‘Dinner with the Parents,’ inspired by the hit show ‘Friday Night Dinner,’ is out now on Freevee
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Bringing Passover back to the town where the Nazis killed our relatives
My friend Sharon and I collaborated with community leaders to restore the memory of Jewish life in Radom, Poland
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Books This legendary Jewish humorist was ‘the most negative writer of his era’ — can he still speak to ours?
S.J. Perelman influenced countless comics including Mel Brooks and Woody Allen
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Why ‘Waiting for Godot’ is an apt metaphor for Israeli and Palestinian history
Beckett's masterwork, celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, is a play where nothing happens — again and again
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Once upon a time, a Yiddish-ish ‘Mikado’ starred Danny Kaye, Jerome Robbins and Judy Garland
Though no recordings were made of the 'Yinglish Mikado,' traces of it remain
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J.K. Rowling didn’t want to be called a Holocaust denier. That backfired.
The author's attempts to quiet her critics ended up making the accusations far more viral.
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Could this be the most meaningful Holocaust memorial in New York?
In Riverside Park, a stone meant to be a placeholder for a grander memorial has become an unlikely gathering place for Bundist Holocaust survivors and their descendants
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Art What Houdini, Coney Island and space aliens have to do with the book of Exodus
Joel Silverstein’s ‘Brighton Beach Bible’ blends autobiography, comics and high art with the Passover story
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99 problems and a lamb ain’t one: What the Talmud says about Trump’s hush money trial
Payments to sex workers have some restrictions, but it may be another Jewish law that is more relevant to the Stormy Daniels case
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What losing Tikkun means to me — and to the rest of the Jewish world
Founded in 1986, the magazine set itself an unachievable goal — to repair the world
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News Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s selection as JTS commencement speaker roils graduating class
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Sports NBA coach Steve Kerr: ‘Israel sought revenge for Oct. 7 and now 72,000 Palestinians have been killed’
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Film & TV A new documentary challenges stereotypes about Orthodox Jewish women — and their wigs
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News Analysis: As Democrats unite behind Platner, Schumer’s future as leader faces tests
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Fast Forward A new Hebrew press in Berlin argues that Israel doesn’t own the language
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Fast Forward Jewish library and Chabad near Buenos Aires attacked, Argentine Jewish advocates say
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Fast Forward Cornell’s Jewish president clashes with students following on-campus debate about Israel
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Fast Forward U of Michigan apologizes after faculty chair praises pro-Palestinian students during commencement speech