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Culture
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The towering Jewish critic who taught me to grok art and hate Picasso
After Max Kozloff died at 91, a New York community came together to remember and to mourn
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Evangelicals love to compare Trump to King David — but just how similar are they?
David slept with Batsheva, Trump slept with Stormy Daniels — and the similarities end there
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Art A Jewish painter, perhaps, but undeniably a spiritually transcendent one
Standing before the paintings of Helen Frankenthaler, it's hard not to feel a sense of awakening
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Music A new album blends klezmer and American folk — and is at home in both
‘In Der Heym/Down Home’ shows how two musical styles have a lot in common
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Books So, what did Jorge Luis Borges really think of the Jews?
Though he was often called a philosemite, the truth is a lot messier
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‘Please don’t stop’: Pandemic project of daily Magna-Tiles messages passes 1,000-day mark
Despite rising antisemitism, family proudly displays Jewish and Hebrew phrases on garage doors
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From frog candlesticks to watermelon menorahs — meet the designer making Instagram’s favorite Judaica
Susan Alexandra's 'kooky' new Passover collection is for more than just Seder
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In rural America’s ‘matzo deserts,’ Jews struggle to set their Seder tables
Sometimes, Christian Seders buy up all the matzo in the few stores that sell it
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Why Maimonides is the ideal mind for surviving the era of Fake News
Alberto Manguel’s Jewish Lives book on Rambam reveals a thinker guided by reason
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BINTEL BRIEF My sister cut me out of her life after our father died. How do I fix this?
Bintel says you can open the door — but you can’t make her walk through
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Film & TV ‘I’m always telling the story of Exodus’: ‘Unorthodox’ creator Anna Winger on her new Netflix show
‘Transatlantic’ chronicles an effort to save artists and thinkers from Nazi Europe
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The crucial Jewish ingredient that you probably don’t think of as a Jewish ingredient
Want to make shakshuka, matzo brei or avgolemono? You're going to need some eggs
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