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Culture
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How American Jews have managed to survive a history of antisemitism and bigoted fanaticism
'Acts of Faith,' an exhibit at the New York Historical Society, explores the history of religion and prejudice in America
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How Barbra Streisand became a meme-able legend for a new generation
Sure, she has 43 Grammy nominations. But millennial and Gen Z fans might know Streisand best as the woman who cloned her dogs
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Gal Gadot’s newest movie screening — featuring Hamas atrocities — is drawing criticism
The Israeli movie star Gal Gadot is being harshly criticized for ignoring the Palestinian experience.
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Film & TV In the shadow of death and motherly disappointment, Albert Brooks changed the world of comedy
In a new HBO documentary, Rob Reiner pays tribute to his best friend Albert Brooks
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Film & TV In a blockbuster film about the Ukrainian Robin Hood, the Baal Shem Tov makes his debut
Actor Luzer Twersky portrays the founder of Hasidic Judaism in the movie 'Dovbush'
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The overlooked musical that prepared Barbra Streisand for ‘Funny Girl’
Streisand's Broadway debut as a frumpy secretary in 'I Can Get It For You Wholesale' set the stage (literally) for her breakout performance as Fanny Brice
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100 years ago, Albert Einstein fled Berlin due to antisemitism
The Nobel Prize winner left the city after a rumored assassination attempt
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I played Fanny Brice on Broadway. Here’s what she taught me about being an actor
When Beanie Feldstein departed the Broadway revival of 'Funny Girl' early, an understudy got an unexpected moment in the spotlight
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Books How Barbra Streisand’s interior design manifesto inspired an unlikely hit play
Over a decade before publishing her first memoir, the movie star made her authorial debut with a coffee table tome detailing her sometimes questionable, always ostentatious taste in home decor
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Theater How songs of the Jewish ghetto, camps and secret cabarets became a musical
The Folksbiene's ‘Amid Falling Walls’ highlights three generations of one family’s work in Yiddish music
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When bomb shelters become love nests: Some Israelis are using the war for pickup lines
Bomb shelters have become a pick-up line for enterprising Israeli playboys
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Film & TV Netflix’s ‘Queen of Chess’ tracks the rise of Judit Polgar — but leaves her Jewishness out of it
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Theater Could this be the most Jewish musical that never admits its own Jewishness?
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Fast Forward New York City Council pushes action on antisemitism, without Mamdani
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Opinion Here’s exactly why it’s dangerous to compare ICE to Nazis
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