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Culture
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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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Guernica magazine retracts Israeli writer’s coexistence essay that co-publisher called an ‘apologia for Zionism’
Several staff members and a publisher of the prestigious volunteer-run magazine resigned over the essay by Joanna Chen
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Film & TV Remembering Gene Wilder — as mensch, mad genius and the only Wonka who matters
A new documentary finds pure imagination and wonder, even in career lowlights
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News Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s selection as JTS commencement speaker roils graduating class
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Film & TV A new documentary challenges stereotypes about Orthodox Jewish women — and their wigs
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Sports NBA coach Steve Kerr: ‘Israel sought revenge for Oct. 7 and now 72,000 Palestinians have been killed’
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News Analysis: As Democrats unite behind Platner, Schumer’s future as leader faces tests
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Fast Forward Pulitzer Prize awarded to Palestinian photographer who captured ‘devastation and starvation in Gaza’
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Fast Forward London police investigating fire at another synagogue, amid string of arsons
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Theater Tony nominee Mark Rosenblatt’s ‘Giant’ journey began with Menachem Begin
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Fast Forward A new Hebrew press in Berlin argues that Israel doesn’t own the language