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Israel Therapy: Should I leave my home in NY to be in Israel with my grieving family?
Ask your relatives what they want. And remember: Travel is reversible
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Art A Jewish family story about defending a kibbutz in 1948 takes on new meaning
Before the war broke out, 'Brothers Keeper' was intended to be a comic book honoring a filmmaker's grandfather
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In New Yorker doc ‘Nina & Irena,’ a director helps his grandmother open up about the Holocaust
Daniel Lombroso sees “Nina & Irena,” his film about his grandmother, as a coda to his 2020 documentary “White Noise”
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One of the world’s greatest artists painted my great-grandmother’s portrait — but who was Selma Fontheim?
The search to find the history behind two portraits painted by Edvard Munch
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With a new (old) album, a tour with (old) new songs, and a giant new book, Bob Dylan remains a neverending juggernaut
'Mixing Up the Medicine' and 'The Complete Budokan' are the latest releases from the Dylan empire
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This Israel-born, Jewish chef is demanding a cease-fire
Ora Wise joins a team of Palestinian chefs mobilizing the food industry in support of besieged Palestinians
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Books Mitch Albom enters new Jewish territory with Holocaust novel ‘The Little Liar’
The bestselling author says he felt an "obligation" as a Jewish writer to tell the story
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A new film unspools the storied life of Jewish outsider artist and Nuremberg trials guard Nathan Hilu
“Nathan-ism,” a film by Elan Golod about a LES artist who guarded Nazis as a young soldier during the Nuremberg trials, premieres in New York
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Books Publisher removes Jewish stereotypes from classic Georgette Heyer romance novel
Heyer pioneered the Regency romance genre and subsequently inspired legions of authors, such as "Bridgerton" novelist Julia Quinn
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‘Do you condemn Hamas?’ — why a seemingly legitimate question has become controversial
Does the question address the left's moral failings or is it being used as a smear tactic?
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Fake images of the war in Israel and Gaza make it difficult to separate truth from fiction
Inflammatory images of Jerusalem in rubble or the Dome of the Rock surrounded by smoke are available on Adobe and iStock
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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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Sports Memes, mashiach and ‘Torah-cyclopedias’ put a Jewish twist on the Knicks’ title chase
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Fast Forward Hebrew Union College claims Ohio’s charity-law suit violates its First Amendment rights
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Fast Forward 6 months after her father was killed at Bondi Beach, Sheina Gutnick has become a leading antisemitism advocate in Australia
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Fast Forward 13,000 Jews were driven out of Poland in 1968. Now, some are returning to tell their story.
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Yiddish World מע קען שוין אָנגעבן אויף דער י. י. סיגאַל פּרעמיע 2026The 2026 J. I. Segal Award for Yiddish literature is now accepting submissions