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Film & TV
An online comedy course asks Marc Maron, Lewis Black and more — why did Jews get into the funny business?
YIVO’s ‘Is Anything Okay?’ dives into Jewish American comedy history
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It wasn’t just the goblins — is J.K. Rowling doing Holocaust denial now?
The British author posted that Nazis did not persecute trans people. That's false.
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Is Kate Middleton’s disappearance a modern-day Purim story?
The Princess of Wales, like Esther of old, has been hidden away
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The secret Jewish history of pi
The relationship between a circle’s diameter and its circumference was originally mentioned in the Hebrew Book of Kings
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The secret Jewish history of the solar eclipse
Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Schneerson viewed solar eclipses as a time for 'increasing prayer and introspection'
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Was the ceasefire pin worn at the Oscars really a reference to the Second Intifada?
The red pin, depicting a hand with a black heart in its palm, caused an uproar in parts of the Jewish world
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What to know about the fiery Jewish reactions to Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars speech criticizing Israel
Reactions to the speech point to a deeper division within the Jewish community, which has only grown since Oct. 7, over when and how to link the Holocaust to Israel
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Books He was the heir apparent to Franz Kafka and Ralph Ellison and pioneered the idea of ‘wokeness’ — how did he just disappear?
For decades, Barry Beckham — whose baseball novel 'Runner Mack' was inspired by Kafka — has been hiding in plain sight
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Music video for ‘Hurricane,’ Israel’s Eurovision entry, released after changes that tone down references to Oct. 7
Key themes of the song, to be performed by the singer Eden Golan, have changed, though some allusions to the attack remain
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Theater Sympathy for the Pharaoh? A Jewish-Indian play asks us to find a soft spot for an old enemy
Misha Shulman’s 'Pharaoh' examines the Exodus villain with a twist of traditional South Asian theater
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Books An elite literary journal imploded over an essay about the war — because it dared to humanize Israelis as well as Palestinians
Guernica staff resigned en masse after a co-publisher declared a piece by a Hebrew and Arabic translator 'an apologia for Zionism'
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Culture Inside the ancient Christian theology driving modern antisemitism
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News Jews paused Indiana’s abortion ban — by turning a religious freedom law against the evangelical right
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Opinion The moral degradation of Israel’s far right is even worse than you think
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Culture In 1989, Harold Pinter and Jerry Schatzberg made the perfect Holocaust movie for 2026
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Culture Gene Shalit, a mensch with a personality as big as his mustache, turns 100
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Looking Forward How a song about the food chain became a Seder mainstay
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Fast Forward Connecticut Catholic school punishes students who targeted ‘Jew Canaan’ rivals on social media
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Fast Forward Pro-Palestinian rally at Buchenwald memorial is shut down by German authorities
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