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Culture
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Some of the best Jewish jokes from the best Jewish comedians
Joan Rivers on Christmas, Mel Brooks on Jewish dads, and Jerry Seinfeld's favorite Jewish joke
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Mike Nussbaum, the oldest working Jewish actor, tells all
The Chicago-based actor performed in David Mamet's 'American Buffalo' and 'Glengarry Glen Ross' and Arthur Miller's 'The Price'
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A new ‘Color Purple’ adaptation hits theaters, returning author Alice Walker’s history of antisemitism to spotlight
The acclaimed author has endorsed antisemitic conspiracy theorists while working with Steven Spielberg
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Why it’s time to celebrate a glorious Yiddish writer who would have turned 100 this year
Chava Rosenfarb's stories are about memory and the impossibility of forgetting
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Books How did this feisty and ferocious Jewish-American writer fall so far into obscurity?
Mike Gold, author of 'Jews Without Money,' was an uncompromising leftist who epitomized the idea of a proletarian writer
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Theater For Christmas, the story of the Jewish-born Christian missionary who translated the New Testament to Yiddish
New Yiddish Rep’s ‘Gospel According to Chaim’ gracefully grapples with a taboo subject
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Why do Jews eat Chinese food on Christmas?
American Jews have a long history of breaking out the chopsticks in late December
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Books Florida district pulls many Jewish and Holocaust books, including Saul Bellow’s ‘Herzog’ and ‘Black, White and Jewish’
The Orlando-area district was the latest to purge Jewish- and Holocaust-themed books from the shelves in fear of a state law forbidding explicit content
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PERSONAL ESSAY A Christmas story from Jerusalem, 1958, at gunpoint
How a wandering Jew ended up at Midnight Mass, and then in the crosshairs of the Israeli border police
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‘We’re sick and tired of the West telling us what to do’: Palestinian Israeli peace activists speak out on a new podcast
Unapologetic: The Third Narrative is an incisive and vulnerable war-time podcast from two Palestinian citizens of Israel
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Film & TV Steve McQueen’s over-4-hour tour of modern and Holocaust-era Amsterdam makes history mundane — and unbearably boring
‘Occupied City’ is a morbid slideshow of buildings that are no longer standing
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Culture ‘My mayor Muslim, my bagel Jewish’ — the Knicks chant capturing New York’s soul
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Books In ‘Something We Said,’ Richard Pryor’s daughter finds words to discuss the unspeakable
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Opinion It’s time for Jews who love Israel to give up on Zionism
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Opinion Progressive Jews are trying out post-Zionism. There’s one big flaw in their approach
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Opinion Cultural boycotts of Israel just reached peak absurdity
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