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Culture
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‘Israeled,’ a new Urban Dictionary word, becomes proxy battleground in Middle East conflict
Users have contributed several entries for a new verb — ‘Israeled’ — since Oct. 7
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A few of the Forward’s favorite things from 2023
Anne Frank, Real Housewives and an Adam Sandler bat mitzvah movie saw us through a difficult year
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24 perfectly plausible pop culture predictions for 2024
Will HAIM release a mikvah album? Will Larry David get canceled on 'Curb'?
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‘The creation of a space’: How sitting shiva mirrors a therapeutic relationship
What lies behind the healing power of shiva?
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Some of the best Jewish jokes from the best Jewish comedians
Joan Rivers on Christmas, Mel Brooks on Jewish dads, and Jerry Seinfeld's favorite Jewish joke
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Mike Nussbaum, the oldest working Jewish actor, tells all
The Chicago-based actor performed in David Mamet's 'American Buffalo' and 'Glengarry Glen Ross' and Arthur Miller's 'The Price'
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A new ‘Color Purple’ adaptation hits theaters, returning author Alice Walker’s history of antisemitism to spotlight
The acclaimed author has endorsed antisemitic conspiracy theorists while working with Steven Spielberg
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Why it’s time to celebrate a glorious Yiddish writer who would have turned 100 this year
Chava Rosenfarb's stories are about memory and the impossibility of forgetting
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Books How did this feisty and ferocious Jewish-American writer fall so far into obscurity?
Mike Gold, author of 'Jews Without Money,' was an uncompromising leftist who epitomized the idea of a proletarian writer
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Theater For Christmas, the story of the Jewish-born Christian missionary who translated the New Testament to Yiddish
New Yiddish Rep’s ‘Gospel According to Chaim’ gracefully grapples with a taboo subject
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Why do Jews eat Chinese food on Christmas?
American Jews have a long history of breaking out the chopsticks in late December
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