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Film & TV
In Hollywood, the rarest of people — not a score settler or a tattletale, just a mensch
Ed Zwick's new memoir offers artistic advice and some disarming self-awareness
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Here’s why the Super Bowl ads about Jesus, antisemitism and the Israeli hostages didn’t work
A trio of scolding, moralizing ads felt jarring amidst a succession of goofy celebrity spots
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A Polish ‘countess’ saved thousands of concentration camp prisoners from the Nazis. No one knew she was a Jew.
A new book tells Janina Mehlberg’s story, after three custodians of her memoirs died without seeing them published
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A Jewish voice demanding liberty, equality and fraternity — in France and in Texas — has been silenced
Robert Badinter, the eloquent public servant who oversaw the abolition of the death penalty, has died at 95
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Theater In play after play, artists keep asking the Jewish question to which there is no answer
From 'Diary of Anne Frank' to 'Leopoldstadt,' 'Our Class' and 'Prayer for the French Republic,' a struggle to explain the scourge of antisemitism
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Film & TV In this oddball Netflix documentary about a Jew-ish cult, Israel will welcome space aliens and Jesus was a clone
The Raëlian cult believes an alien race known as the Elohim may soon land their spaceship in Israel
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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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