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Culture
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Nobody wants all those menorahs in ‘Nobody Wants This,’ do they?
What the interior decor of 'Nobody Wants This' reveals about its Jewish characters
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Art A revived Jewish Museum spotlights the story of Jewish endurance
The new core exhibition tells a global story of a people shaped by their traditions, and their neighbors
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Books Why the story of Noah’s Ark seems timelier than ever
Charlotte McConaghy’s 'Wild Dark Shore' is only the latest riff on a biblical tale of climate change
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A comet is streaking across our solar system — is it an omen for Jews?
Recent sightings of 3I/ATLAS have sparked discussions of Jewish hopes and fears about extraterrestrial life
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Honoring Rabbi Arthur Waskow – activist, pioneer and prophet
The progressive Jewish leader fused radical activism with transformative spirituality
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Books The Lakers were about to shock the NBA. But Shabbat had to end first.
The secret Jewish history of…the Luka Dončić trade?
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Hidden in Central Park, a modest installation of Holocaust art — but what was it doing there?
A discovery of a memorial to Jewish concentration camp prisoners yields questions of identity, memory and the purpose of art
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Books How an ‘unlikely rabbi’ went from Korea to Colbert
Rabbi Angela Buchdahl's memoir 'Heart of a Stranger' charts her journey as the first Asian American rabbi and cantor
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There wasn’t a Jewish grief group in Boston for young adults, so this rabbi started one
Bereaved Jews in their 20s and 30s had few options until Jackson Mercer founded 'The Worst Club Ever’
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Film & TV Ben Stiller wants you to meet his parents
In 'Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost,' the filmmaker has his L’dor V’dor moment
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Theater The new Anne Frank musical wants you to laugh at ‘woke culture’ — but is it funny?
In 'Slam Frank,' it’s hard to tell who’s in on the joke and who is just…in it.
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Culture He works at a Holocaust museum by day. How’d he end up in ‘Marty Supreme’?
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News The ADL’s turn away from civil rights was years in the making — Oct. 7 accelerated it
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Culture The mysterious case of Barbra Streisand and the missing half-pound of Zabar’s sturgeon
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Antisemitism Decoded How an ‘all-American boy’ became a Mississippi synagogue arson suspect
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Fast Forward Can Mamdani stop NYC’s Jewish comptroller from purchasing millions in Israel Bonds for the city?
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Yiddish World Why the Forward has launched a Yiddish podcast
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News Why New York’s Sephardic Jews are more Zionist — and more wary of Mamdani — than their Ashkenazi neighbors
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