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Culture
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Sex tips from the Talmud, just in time for Valentine’s Day
Valentine may have been a saint, but passion was alive and well before Christianity
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Books What we keep getting wrong about the Holocaust
In his 'Unfinished History,' Dan Stone argues that it was not an exclusively German project, but a 'continent-wide crime'
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In a Jewish art dealer’s Paris apartment, a jaw-dropping collection of 20th-century masterworks
The Picasso Museum attempts to re-create the home of Léonce Rosenberg, dealer for Picasso, Léger, Ernst and scads more
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These matzo ball soup dumplings taught me to stop worrying and enjoy Asian-Jewish fusion food
Jeremy Dean's viral mashup is as genius as it is irreverent
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‘Blazing Saddles’ marks a half-century of hilarity — and controversy
Released 50 years ago this week, Mel Brooks’ film broke Hollywood taboos while skewering racism
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Music Was Taylor Swift supposed to say ‘Free Palestine’ at the Grammys?
Annie Lennox did, and people are mad that the influential pop star has been silent
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A treasure trove of manuscripts sheds light on the history of Jews in Yemen
The National Library of Israel has acquired the world's largest collection of Yemenite Jewish manuscripts
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Critics slammed Harvard’s antisemitism czar for his new book. He says he’s been misunderstood
Derek Penslar's latest book examines Zionist history through the emotions that shaped the movement
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Film & TV ‘The Greatest Night in Pop’ revives the most authentic video of Bob Dylan ever
Legendary for his quick recording sessions, Dylan struggled a bit with ‘We Are the World’
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In Puerto Rico, memories of a forgotten terror attack loom over the present
Just across from Puerto Rico's capitol building, two memorials force the viewer to confront a harrowing past
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Film & TV When Carl Weathers dedicated a Torah scroll with Jerry Stiller
In a 1994 episode of ‘In the Heat of the Night,’ Weathers participated in a meaningful Jewish ritual
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