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Film & TV
100 years later, just how Jewish was Peter Sellers?
The great comedian, who would have turned 100 this year, lived at a time when performers were more discreet about their Jewishness
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Film & TV A dizzying Kafka biopic that isn’t really Kafkaesque
Agnieszka Holland’s ‘Franz’ imagines the author as a saint of modernity
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Film & TV How the world transformed Elie Wiesel — and how he transformed the world
'Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire' traces its subject's journey from Holocaust survivor to international hero and human rights leader
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Film & TV This journalist uncovered America’s greatest abuses. Could he do the same today?
A new documentary, 'Cover-Up,’ shares the inside story of Seymour Hersh’s scoops
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Film & TV Seeking gangsters, must speak Yiddish: Bringing the Hasidic underworld to life in ‘Caught Stealing’
Motl Didner coached Liev Schreiber, Vincent D’Onofrio and Carol Kane on their Yiddish scenes
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He escaped the Holocaust and ‘Matzoh Island,’ but America was no promised land
In the graphic memoir 'The Art of Being a Stranger,' Karen Bermann tells the story of her father Fritz, who became a maven of maintenance in New York
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Sports Forget being caught on camera at a Coldplay concert — I was caught on Shabbat at Yankee Stadium
A Jewish baseball fan remembers the game that outed him on national television
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Film & TV ‘Caught Stealing’ gives us tough, Hasidic drug lords — is it good for the Jews?
Darren Aronofsky’s nostalgic crime caper packs heat and Yiddish
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The Borscht Belt was a haven for Jews — and for crossdressers
At Casa Susanna, a resort in the Catskills, guests were able to safely express themselves
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Kinky Friedman has been gone a year, but his family’s summer camp lives on
Tom and Min Friedman's Echo Hill Ranch is enjoying a second life as a camp for the children of Gold Star families
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How the phrase ‘It was promised to them 3,000 years ago’ became a ubiquitous meme
The comment appears on every kind of Jewish content, but what does it mean?
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Culture A shocking true story of Mexico’s Jewish community comes to Netflix
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Opinion Israel deported me for helping West Bank Palestinians. I won’t give up on a peaceful future for the country I love
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Culture Hey, Irving — why are there so many Jews named Irving?
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Culture In the most talked-about Epstein File exchange, a lesson in Yiddish
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Culture How Black music brought me closer to Judaism
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Opinion In ‘Nuremberg,’ a potent warning about our current politics of denial
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Fast Forward Trump says he and Mamdani ‘didn’t discuss’ NYC mayor-elect’s vow to arrest Netanyahu during congenial meeting
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Yiddish ווידעאָ: משהלע אַלפֿאָנסאָ רעדט וועגן נײַ ביכל פּרץ־מעשׂיות פֿאַר סטודענטןVIDEO: Moishele Alfonso on the new book of I. L. Peretz stories for students
דאָס ביכל נעמט אַרײַן אַ גלאָסאַר, שמועס־פֿראַגעס און קלאַנג־רעקאָרדירונגען פֿון די דערציילונגען.
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