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Culture
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Is an intifada in France inevitable? Peut-être
This year, there have already been three times as many antisemitic acts in France as there were in 2022
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A priceless Hanukkah story — and it cost only $70
The menorah was way too expensive for a 12-year-old kid, so the Hebrew bookstore in Chicago put it on layaway
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Books In the Warsaw ghetto, where disease, cold weather and violence all exerted heavy tolls
Lauren Grodstein's 'We Must Not Think of Ourselves' focuses on glimmers of hope amid overwhelming catastrophe
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Music How a Brooklyn-born Beatles fan named Elliot Steinberg became a rock ’n’ roll legend
In the 1970s, Elliot Easton joined a band called The Cars — and the rest is history
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Film & TV Bernstein, Oppenheimer and Barbie lead off a Jew-ish list of 2024 Golden Globe nominees
The awards show is big on Jewish titans who shaped the world, in music, plastic and nuclear physics
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‘Life is Beautiful’ hit US theaters 25 years ago. The film’s Holocaust humor raised issues that linger today.
Robert Benigni’s Oscar-winning comedy, set in a concentration camp, was polarizing from the get-go
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Film & TV Why Ryan O’Neal could make you laugh in (not at) his underwear
The late actor’s style was divisive, but often delivered exactly what was needed
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How a Hanukkah faux-pas in France ignited a political firestorm
Lighting a menorah at the presidential palace, President Emmanuel Macron is accused of blurring the line between church and state
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Film & TV ‘The Zone of Interest’ asks: Why would a family want to live at Auschwitz?
Jonathan Glazer’s masterpiece follows the life of Nazi Commandant Rudolf Höss
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How a Jewish educator took the Hanukkah llama from TJ Maxx meme to teachable moment
Sara Beth Berman said her novelty book was "taking a piece of the zeitgeist and attaching it to a story that is meaningful"
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Leonard Bernstein was far more Jewish than you’d know from ‘Maestro’
The composer and conductor's Judaism is core to his music, and his life
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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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