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Culture
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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 How do I get my control-freak husband to back off?
Bintel says set some boundaries — and tell him to 'quit banging the teakettle'
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Theater A transparently Jewish musical is finally speaking its truth and singing its faith
Faith Soloway discusses the process of adapting the hit TV show 'Transparent' to the stage and putting it to music
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How ‘Some Like it Hot’ got to Broadway — and lost a very Jewish song in the process
Tony nominees Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman share a demo of a cut song and chat about their inspirations and initial fears about taking on the classic comedy
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Film & TV ‘Succession’ is over. But have you seen Jesse Armstrong’s Woody Allen-inspired short?
Well before he took on the Murdochs, Armstrong chronicled the life of a misfit Welsh pseudo-Jew
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Film & TV I wrote comedy for Mary Tyler Moore and Carl Reiner — and I support the writers’ strike
A TV veteran who joined the guild in 1973 explains what's at stake
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The secret Jewish history of the Indianapolis 500
Alon Day, Peter Revson and Carl Fisher are names that should be known alongside Mario Andretti and A.J. Fo\yt
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The greatest war story my ski trooper uncle ever told
Sam Meiselman was a member of the army's elite 10th Mountain Division
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This mikvah was hidden for 500 years — it’s still a place for purification and connection
In Sicily, at Europe's oldest surviving ritual bath, a chance encounter that maybe wasn't so chance, after all
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Film & TV ‘Fauda’ meets ‘Homeland’ meets crummy documentary in ‘Ghosts of Beirut’
The show by ‘Fauda’ co-creators and director Greg Barker is a messy cat-and-mouse game
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FIRST PERSON Why I bought a headstone for a Holocaust survivor I never knew
The dead man was a hustler despised by other Jews. But to honor him was to honor the vanished world of Milwaukee's Jews
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She was the most famous Jewish actress of all time — can we still say she was the greatest?
Sarah Bernhardt wowed audiences with her performances as Shylock and Hamlet, but a century later only scant evidence of her genius remains.
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