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Culture
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How Eastern Europe’s Jews celebrated a merry ‘nitl’ Christmas
A new book describes 'Christmas in the Yiddish tradition'
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Looking Forward What this year’s Hallmark Hanukkah movie says about America
Hallmark is the epitome of mainstream, making its Hanukkah movies a good barometer for the place of Jewish culture in the U.S.
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BINTEL BRIEF Can Jewish tradition help you stay sane when all your bosses are ‘idiots’?
Bintel says the sages encouraged questioning authority — just be careful you don’t get fired
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Surprise, we’re going to Auschwitz! What happens when an influencer stumbles upon a Holocaust memorial
An influencer gifted her boyfriend a trip to the concentration camp for his birthday. What does that say about the state of Holocaust remembrance?
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What happens when you’re the only Jewish family in Oklahoma?
'Oklahoma Samovar,’ from Alice Eve Cohen, follows a Jewish family over generations as they try to find their place in America
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Film & TV How the Forward got a cameo in ‘Marty Supreme’
Production designer Jack Fisk said this bit of decoration paid homage to the past, and solved a modern-day headache
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He used to think Jewish athletes were a punchline; now, he wants to help them get a proper paycheck
Jeremy Moses, co-founder of Tribe NIL, believes his new initiative can help Jewish student-athletes finally profit off of their talent
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Why small town Jews buried their dead in big cities — and what those journeys reveal today
Funeral trains linked isolated Jews to larger communities, revealing how belonging could stretch across counties, rail lines, and faiths
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Art It’s time to reconsider what we know about Jewish birthing rituals
At the Museum on Eldridge Street, ‘First Light: Birth in the Jewish Tradition’ merges tradition with modern understandings of birthing customs
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Looking Forward My favorite Christmas scene in literature — and why it makes me feel so Jewish
Louisa May Alcott's 'Eight Cousins' is set in a distinctly un-Jewish milieu, but I saw myself on the page all the same
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Film & TV A lackluster exhibit gives short shrift to Claude Lanzmann’s legacy — and to the Shoah’s victims
‘Voices from the Shoah Tapes’ at The New York Historical is a pale shadow of a proper tribute in Berlin
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Culture Inside the ancient Christian theology driving modern antisemitism
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News Jews paused Indiana’s abortion ban — by turning a religious freedom law against the evangelical right
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Opinion The moral degradation of Israel’s far right is even worse than you think
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News Mamdani to attend Passover Seder as he navigates ties with Jewish groups amid rising antisemitism
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