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Film & TV In ‘The Rehearsal’ season 2, is Nathan Fielder serious?
The comedian is out to solve an epidemic of airplane crashes — will the world listen?
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Books Jules Feiffer, a ‘smartass’ Jew whose work spanned comics and cinema, dies at 95
The Pulitzer winner was working on a new book, and just moved upstate
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Music 50 years later, Bob Dylan’s ‘Blood on the Tracks’ remains the standard by which all albums are measured
In 1975, Dylan introduced a whole new way of songwriting
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Music Bob Dylan joins TikTok — just in time for TikTok to be banned
The musician is making the most of the app in what could be its final days
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Books A Jewish family’s trauma is the villain in an epic Israeli-Palestinian love story
Zeeva Bukai on how a tragedy drives intergenerational conflict in her debut novel, 'The Anatomy of Exile'
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Before I learned Kabbalah, I learned from David Lynch
There are many layers to our experience of reality, some hidden from view — David Lynch helped reveal them.
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Film & TV How the discovery of a secret tunnel inspired a film about Jewish resistance
The PBS documentary ‘Resistance’ surfaced the often unsung stories of how Jews fought back against the Nazis
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Music In lawsuit, Drake accuses Kendrick Lamar of picking on ‘Jewish heritage’
The beef over Lamar’s Grammy-nominated ‘Not Like Us’ continues
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BINTEL BRIEF ‘I live in a Muslim country. Speaking out against antisemitism has left me friendless’
Bintel says thanks for being an ally. Now go out and find some like-minded pals
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Is the TikTok ban about China — or is it really about Gaza?
Congressional advocacy for a ban has referenced Chinese data-mining, but also the anti-Israel content on the platform
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Was Casanova an antisemite, a believer in Kabbalah — or both?
Born 300 years ago, the legendary libertine had a utilitarian relationship to faith
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Film & TV In ‘Midas Man,’ a by-the-numbers tribute to the fifth Beatle
The Brian Epstein flick suffers from biopic malaise
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