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Books
Florida district pulls many Jewish and Holocaust books, including Saul Bellow’s ‘Herzog’ and ‘Black, White and Jewish’
The Orlando-area district was the latest to purge Jewish- and Holocaust-themed books from the shelves in fear of a state law forbidding explicit content
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PERSONAL ESSAY A Christmas story from Jerusalem, 1958, at gunpoint
How a wandering Jew ended up at Midnight Mass, and then in the crosshairs of the Israeli border police
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‘We’re sick and tired of the West telling us what to do’: Palestinian Israeli peace activists speak out on a new podcast
Unapologetic: The Third Narrative is an incisive and vulnerable war-time podcast from two Palestinian citizens of Israel
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Film & TV Steve McQueen’s over-4-hour tour of modern and Holocaust-era Amsterdam makes history mundane — and unbearably boring
‘Occupied City’ is a morbid slideshow of buildings that are no longer standing
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Film & TV The song, and the Holocaust survivor, behind the year’s most stunning moment in film
How Joseph Wulf’s Yiddish song ‘Sunbeams,’ composed at Auschwitz, ended up in Jonathan Glazer’s ‘Zone of Interest’
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20 Jewish celebrities who died in 2023
From movie stars to politicians to Nobel Prize winners
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Theater She’d never played a Jewish character before. Then, a hit play about antisemitism came along.
Francis Benhamou heads to Broadway with Joshua Harmon's 'Prayer for the French Republic'
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Books The best Jewish books of 2023
Grab one (or several) of these new classics before the new year
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Why I am grateful to Ady Barkan — a man who always told it straight
The activist did not go quietly. In fact, his voice is still being heard.
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Masha Gessen will receive Hannah Arendt Prize after all, following controversy over Gaza essay
One critic claimed that Gessen’s New Yorker essay, in which they quoted Arendt, “is in clear contrast” to the philosopher
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Film & TV This documentary about American Jews and Israel has been canceled (and uncanceled) four times — and counting
'Israelism,' a documentary about young Jews critical of Israel, has landed at the center of campus antisemitism debates
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Yiddish ווידעאָ: היסטאָריקערין וויווי לאַקס באַשרײַבט געשיכטע פֿון לאָנדאָנער ייִדישער פּרעסעVIDEO: Historian Vivi Laks tells history of the London Yiddish Press
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Yiddish World Puppet Monty Pickle is guest on the Forward’s ‘Yiddish Word of the Day’
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Fast Forward Holocaust survivor event features a Rob Reiner video address — recorded just weeks before his death
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