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I have seen the future of America — in a pastrami sandwich in Queens
San Wei, which serves pastrami sandwiches along with churros and biang biang noodles, represents an immigrant's fulfillment of the American dream
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BINTEL BRIEF I’m retired and I don’t drive. How do I fill and face the days ahead?
Bintel has 18 great ideas for creating new routines and putting yourself out there
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Does Elon Musk admire Mel Gibson’s antisemitism, or just his ‘buff’ biceps?
His comment on a bigoted post recalls an earlier exchange with Kanye West
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Film & TV Inspired by his grandparents’ tragic Holocaust story, a director imbues his latest hit film with passion and joy
Cédric Klapisch's 'Rise' is the antithesis of Darren Aronofsky's 'Black Swan'
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Smoke-filled skies evoke the Christian apocalypse — but what does Judaism say about the End Times?
New York was engulfed by thick, yellow smog from wildfires this week, causing a lot of discussion of doomsday
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20 years ago, Marvel introduced a Jewish Black Panther
Kevin Cole, who becomes an ally of the original Black Panther, was 'a character that our readers could identify with and relate to,' said a Marvel editor
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Books It was a pioneering trans library — until the Nazis burned it
In Weimar Germany, the gay Jewish doctor Magnus Hirschfeld performed the first gender-affirming surgeries and collected research on sexuality. The 1933 book burnings destroyed his life's work
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Pay no attention to that big cross he’s wearing — Tom Jones really does have a secret Jewish history
The Welsh singer has covered songs by Bob Dylan and has sung about Samson and Delilah
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Theater How a Jewish scholar became the Shakespeare whisperer helping to make ‘Hamlet’ relevant to our times
James Shapiro first encountered Shakespeare in the classroom, but that's not where he learned to love the Bard
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Any resemblance between these characters and Vladimir Putin’s Russia is strictly intentional
In Paul Goldberg's 'The Dissident,' a Jewish refusenik must try to solve a murder before Henry Kissinger comes to town
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Theater A classic story of immigrant Jews returns to New York — this time as a musical
In ‘The Imported Bridegroom,’ a century-old story still feels relevant
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Music Taylor Swift fans have amnesia. So did Jews after Sinai.
Swifties can learn how to process their memory loss by turning to the Talmud
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