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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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Film & TV Is ‘The Idol’ good for Hollywood Jews or ‘torture porn’?
The pilot of the controversial HBO series is chock full of Jews — but not the noblest depictions of them
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Books When a Carole King or a Susan Sontag goes missing, it’s good to have a Jewish detective on the case
in 'The Last Songbird,' Daniel Weizmann puts a new Jewish spin on an LA noir
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Music Is this a vision of heaven or is it a Taylor Swift concert?
For one fan, his parents and 80,000 others, a blissful revelation — from one era to the next
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Art How a Jewish ‘witness of hell’ navigated a landscape of American terror
Born Philip Goldstein, painter Philip Guston was haunted by the tragedies of the past and the horrors of the present
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Art How a ‘wise man of the shtetl’ evaded Soviet repression and antisemitism to achieve international fame as an artist
For a time, Ilya Kabakov was the only artist from the Soviet Union to have a successful career in the West as well as within the USSR
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Why is the name of ‘the most vicious antisemite in the English-speaking world’ still so prominent at Cornell?
The anti-feminist, Jew-hating screeds of Goldwin Smith would seem to be at odds with the school's College of Arts & Sciences
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FIRST PERSON What would you do if you got a Nazi relic in the mail?
Unlike Clarence Thomas’ billionaire pal Harlan Crow, I couldn’t wait to get that thing out of my house
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Film & TV In two daring new films from Israel, life and art are even messier than politics
‘The Other Widow’ and ‘The Good Person’ are playing at the Israel Film Center Festival
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Echoing the language of antisemites, Emmanuel Macron has started to embrace the D-word
Exactly what does the French president mean when he speaks of 'decivilization'?
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Art The Met will start policing its collections for looted art. Holocaust restitution paved the way
The New York City museum announced an initiative to research provenances and return artifacts to countries including Nepal, Egypt and India
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Can Massachusetts really be as antisemitic as they say?
The state may have the country's fourth-highest percentage of Jews, but a recent report from the ADL is cause for alarm
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