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Theater
He may have been the world’s most famous mime, but in this play, he won’t shut up
Ethan Slater misses the mark with 'Marcel on the Train,' an uneven play about Marcel Marceau’s Holocaust rescues
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Looking Forward Dear internet: Having Jews in movies isn’t ‘Zionist propaganda’
Viewers of new films, and old, are missing the plot on the Jewish story
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Everyone can be a war profiteer in Gaza or Iran, thanks to online betting markets
Polymarket and Kalshi let people bet on exactly when and where bombs might fall
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Art Rembrandt has been hailed for his love of the Jewish people — was it all a myth?
A new exhibit at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts digs into the artist's much-scrutinized Jewish interactions, real and otherwise
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Film & TV How the Jewish Museum brought Black film history to new audiences
A revival of the 1970 series ‘The Black Film’ recounts how the museum encouraged intercultural dialogue in the wake of Black-Jewish conflict
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Forever curious, never daunted, Frederick Wiseman sought to repair the world through film
The great documentarian, who has died at 96, leaves behind a legacy of films that offer a moral accounting of the American soul
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Why a forgotten teacher’s grave became a Jewish pilgrimage site
Long after his death, the grave of Rabbi Yechiel Meir Burgeman has become a site of prayer and hope
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Is there life after Lubavitch?
In his memoir 'Brooklyn Odyssey,' ex-Hasidic sociologist Schneur Zalman Newfield turns his gaze inward
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Does Jewish law say it’s OK to lie to the high-roller who wants to manage your rock ‘n’ roll band?
He asked if I was a 'stallion or a gelding' — the real question was if I was a mensch or a mouse
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What Carrie Prejean Boller tells us about Christian Zionism in the US
The former model was removed from the Religious Liberty Commission over her comments on Jews and Israel
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Books Art theft, angels and neo-Nazis force a reckoning with the past in ‘The Tavern at the End of History’
The characters in Morris Collins’ novel turn to history and mysticism to grapple with tragedies
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Opinion New York’s Israel Day parade was a shanda — but not because of Mamdani
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Books In ‘Something We Said,’ Richard Pryor’s daughter finds words to discuss the unspeakable
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Opinion Israeli and diaspora Jews live in different realities. The Israel Day parade proved it
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Opinion Trump’s humiliation of Netanyahu marks a sea change in the US-Israel relationship
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Fast Forward Trump urges Iran to make a deal after Iran fires missiles at Israel for first time in 2 months
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News Maine Democrats are poised to nominate Graham Platner, as Jewish Democrats withhold support
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Fast Forward Some Jewish Republicans say Tucker Carlson is no longer a threat. Others worry he’ll run for president.
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Fast Forward Canada’s new council to tackle antisemitism divides Jewish groups