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Culture
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‘Dirty Dancing’ and the Yiddish Camelot it captured
An illustrated deep dive into the 1987 film that brought the Jewish Catskills to the masses
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Theater ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ lyricist Sheldon Harnick dies at 99
Harnick put words to Jewish life — past and present
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Director Mira Nair wanted an Indian ‘Fiddler on the Roof.’ The result: ‘Monsoon Wedding, The Musical’
A theatrical adaptation of the hit film 'Monsoon Wedding' ends its run this weekend in Brooklyn
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Mark Schiff, Jerry Seinfeld’s longtime opening act, brings tefillin on tour
In a memoir, Schiff describes his path from from inauspicious beginnings to life as a working comedian alongside a bevy of generation-defining Jewish comics
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A Hulu horror movie influenced by the post-Holocaust pressure to have children
'Clock' tackles the weighty topic of how the Jewish community can pressure women to bear children as a means of avenging the Holocaust
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Theater Young Jews grapple with how to remember what some Holocaust survivors would rather forget
A new play explores the tension between a mandate to 'never forget' and the impossibility of remembering
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Film & TV Why a gripping new movie about the aftermath of a terrorist attack is personal for its director
After her brother survived 2015 Bataclan concert hall massacre, Alice Winocour wanted to tell a story of resilience and survival
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Books A week as a hostage on a hijacked plane, a lifetime of anxiety and traumatic memories
In 'My Hijacking,' Martha Hodes tries to reconstruct 'the most spectacular episode of air piracy the world had yet seen'
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BINTEL BRIEF Can I be both religious and ‘slutty’?
Bintel advises respect for one’s body while taking observance one step at a time
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Is it time to mourn the passengers aboard the lost submersible?
What does Jewish tradition tell us about grieving missing persons?
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Theater In ‘The Doctor,’ a thought experiment about antisemitism goes awry
A Jewish doctor sets off a scandal of identity politics in this new play at the Park Avenue Armory
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