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Culture
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How a few judiciously placed slices of New York Jewish cheesecake changed the world of rock ‘n’ roll
Richard Gottehrer's trip to pop music immortality began with good timing and good dessert
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In PBS series ‘Little Bird,’ a Jewish woman uncovers her traumatic Indigenous past
Co-creator Jennifer Podemski, born to a Jewish father and Indigenous mother, drew heavily on her own experience
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A high-tech answer to the dilemma of how to teach the Holocaust to kids without traumatizing them
"Courage to Act" at the Museum of Jewish Heritage uses hologram-like videos to recount the escape of 95% of Danish Jews to neutral Sweden
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Reporter's Notebook Your Israel and Hamas takes offend me — not as a Jew, but as a journalist
My colleagues and I are striving for balance. Sensationalist takes on social media are exhausting us
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Her family escaped from pogroms to South Dakota — did they become complicit in the decimation of Native Americans?
Rebecca Clarren's 'The Cost of Free Land' is a confession of collective guilt
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The shifting narratives of the Gaza hospital bombing: 24 hours in a fog of war story
As the world scrambled to figure out who bombed a hospital in Gaza, people analyzed videos and spread unverified theories online
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Art A new golem is born with a new mission — protecting vulnerable communities and cultural history
Michael Rakowitz creates monuments from the destruction of other monuments
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In a France riven by terrorism, why history (and one particular Jewish historian) still matters
Marc Bloch would have understood the irony of the threats issued at the school bearing his name
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On board a massive cruise ship, Americans escape Israel — en route to Cyprus and parts unknown
From Haifa, nearly 200 set sail on the Royal Caribbean Rhapsody, chartered by the US government
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Books Hundreds of writers protest cancellation of Palestinian author’s event at Frankfurt Book Fair
Organizers called off an award ceremony for Adania Shibli's 'Minor Detail,' a novel based on the true story of a 1949 rape of a Palestinian girl by Israeli soldiers
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Is John Turturro our greatest non-Jewish portrayer of Jews? A list of his best (and most-problematic) performances
With the actor now taking on Philip Roth's 'Sabbath's Theater,' a look back on his Jewish filmography
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Culture Mamdani’s first statement on antisemitism as mayor-elect got some weird pushback
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Culture Mamdani quoted Eugene Debs in his victory speech — there’s a long Jewish history there
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Opinion The 3 profound Jewish lessons of Mamdani’s astonishing victory
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Opinion I spoke out against Mamdani. Then he won. Here’s how we walk forward together.
In Case You Missed It
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Opinion A single arrest has thrown the battle for Israel’s soul into sharp relief
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Culture A young Muslim woman moved in with a 96-year-old Jewish actress – and it was bashert
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Film & TV Amy Goodman has been a fearless journalist for more than four decades; she says her Jewish roots made her that way
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Yiddish גרשון ווײַסעס פּאָעטישע חידושיםGershon Weiss’ poetic surprises
אין זײַן בוך לידער פֿאַרטיפֿט זיך דער דיכטער אין פּסיכאָלאָגיע, רוחניות און צווישן־קולטורעלע פֿאַרבינדונגען.
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