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Haunting, poignant, unsettling, riveting — images from the precarious lives of artists in a diverse Israeli city
The art in 'Tales and Textiles' at JCC Manhattan reflects divergent backgrounds and similar experiences
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Beyond ‘The Golden Bachelor’: 6 Jewish couples who found love later in life
Some have been married several times. Some don’t want to ever marry again. But these couples all found love.
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Film & TV A nude dating show is a controversial hit on Max. But is it actually sinful — biblically speaking?
'Naked Attraction' may sound crude, but contestants' lack of shame brings us back to Adam and Eve
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Film & TV This movie tells the true story of a 6-year-old Jewish boy — baptized, kidnapped and raised by the Pope
Marco Bellocchio’s 'Kidnapped' is a sumptuous, scary retelling of the Mortara Affair
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Theater Once, this play about an underground abortion network was history; now, it’s timelier than ever
Paula Kamen’s ‘Jane: Abortion and the Underground’ looks prescient in the post-Roe v. Wade era
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Books This Jewish philosopher should win the Nobel Prize in Literature
Martha Nussbaum's philosophy has forcefully argued for the importance of the humanities in a world that shrugs at art
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Why there’s nothing normal about Israel normalizing relations with Saudi Arabia
As Hans Morgenthau and Hannah Arendt would remind us, choosing the lesser of two evils still means choosing evil
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He’s the greatest Jewish storyteller of our generation — isn’t it time for him to win the Nobel Prize?
Yes, it’s time for Ira Glass to step up to the podium in Oslo — and time for the Nobel to modernize
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Alice Shalvi pioneered religious feminism in Israel. Everyone else is still catching up.
The German-born scholar, who died Monday at 96, pioneered feminist ideas in Israel in the early 1970s when there were only a handful of women doing such work
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The most prominent Jew in Latin America wore a crucifix at a recent campaign event. Is that kosher?
People are divided about Claudia Sheinbaum, the Jewish woman aiming to become Mexico's next president, donning a rosary
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PHOTOS: The raw power of Jewish diversity across four continents
Photographer Zion Ozeri traveled the world to show how Jews look and live differently from each other
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News Jews paused Indiana’s abortion ban — by turning a religious freedom law against the evangelical right
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Opinion An abominable new Israeli law is a death warrant for democracy
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