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Art
It was one of the strangest Jewish records ever made — good luck finding a way to listen to it
Avant-garde stalwart Lionel Ziprin once said his grandfather, Rabbi Nuftali Zvi Margolies, could sing better than Enrico Caruso
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Film & TV How a Jewish producer — haunted by the Holocaust — gave us Judy Garland’s MGM swan song
Joe Pasternak placed a premium on happy endings. He knew life didn't always work out that way.
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I volunteered, transporting sick Palestinian children to hospitals — it hardly seems possible anymore
A volunteer wonders if her dream of coexistence has been destroyed forever
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Why one actor threatened to boycott the Seinfeld circumcision episode
Jason Alexander said he’s usually fine with jokes about Jews, but the script struck him as antisemitic
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How curiosity, intelligence and a supportive mom prepared a Bronx-born Jewish girl to win the Nobel Prize
Economist Claudia Goldin remembers growing up above Macy's in an apartment without air conditioning
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Art The most beautiful new bagel shop in New York doesn’t have any bagels in it
British artist Lucy Sparrow’s Lower East Side pop-up, Feltz Bagels, is made completely out of felt and paint, down to the last sesame seed
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As in 1940 France, Israel’s fortified border protected only a false sense of security
As Hamas terrorists crossed the divide, they recalled the time Germany breached the Maginot Line
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For my mother — who survived the Holocaust, married the love of her life and kept her sense of humor
A daughter and a physician remembers her mother's stories of survival and her advice for surviving
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Books He wanted to tell the story of ordinary Palestinians living under occupation — will anyone want to listen now?
Nathan Thrall's 'A Day in the Life of Abed Salama' is an intimately reported account of the aftermath of a lethal West Bank bus crash
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Why we need to stop calling Hamas attackers ‘militants’ or ‘gunmen’ and start calling them ‘terrorists’
In the war of public opinion, words matter — now more than ever
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Wedding during wartime: A donated cake, a volunteer band, fairy lights by the bomb shelter
Jewish law says marriages go forward even in times of tragedy
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