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‘I have my own planet’: An Argentine Jewish artist makes a psychedelic, exuberant US debut
The Jewish Museum’s latest exhibit, ‘Marta Minujín: Arte! Arte! Arte!,’ is a joyful survey of a 1960s icon
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Art Can art help us process the atrocities committed by Hamas on Oct. 7?
In different ways and in different eras, the work of three artists imagines the unimaginable
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Film & TV How a sly Jewish playwright wrote ‘the Citizen Kane of horror movies’
Despite unassuming beginnings, Anthony Shaffer's 'Wicker Man' has become a cult film of gargantuan proportions
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Israel Therapy Israel Therapy: I’m in college, and I refuse to choose between #standwithIsrael and #freePalestine
Polarization is a strategy, not an inevitability. We can choose solidarity with two peoples
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Two Holocaust survivors, reunited after 80 years apart, tell their tale in a new short documentary
A Manhattan museum screens “Jack and Sam,” about Polish Jews who met in a labor camp and reconnected in their 90s
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Hallmark’s newest Hanukkah movie makes fun of Hallmark holiday movies
'Round and Round' knows Hallmark movies are formulaic, and it gets kind of meta — in a good way
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Film & TV Blending seemingly contradictory Jewish clichés, Jennifer Lawrence’s Netflix sex comedy works better than it should
Elements of 'No Hard Feelings' should be familiar to viewers of 'Seinfeld' and 'Annie Hall'
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Film & TV Norman Lear’s early experience of antisemitism made him America’s conscience
The ‘All in the Family’ and ‘Jeffersons’ producer died at 101
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In a new war over Middle Eastern food, eating hummus and shawarma has become a political act
For some, calling a chopped salad 'Israeli' or 'Palestinian' says a lot about where you stand on the Israel-Hamas war
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A ‘heartbroken’ Palestinian author confronts his prominent father’s murder, a history of international betrayal and devastation in Gaza
Raja Shehadeh and his father, Aziz, emerged as leading Palestinian lawyers in their generations. A new book explores their different approaches to challenging the Israeli government — and the personal cost of their shared vision.
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Why an Israel-born comic is hoping his latest act becomes irrelevant as soon as possible
For Shahak Shapira, there is power and relief in responding to the war with comedy
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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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Culture The Jewish friendship that let David Hockney experience ‘dangerous perfection’
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Opinion Aristotle, Jewish ethics and the vexing case of Graham Platner