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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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Film & TV The real story buried in the Disney+ Stan Lee documentary
The film overplays the Marvel editor’s contributions — and downplays his Jewishness
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Film & TV In a searing new Israeli drama, a classroom dispute explodes into Greek tragedy
'The Lesson,' now on ChaiFlicks, stars Doron Ben David of 'Fauda' and Maya Landsman
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Through the eyes of a 102-year-old photographer, memories of a past full of adventure
Al Leff came from a poor, immigrant family in Brooklyn. The U.S. Army and a camera opened up a whole new world for him.
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Books ‘My Friend Anne Frank’ tells the incredible story of how Anne’s best friend survived the Holocaust
Against all odds, Hannah Pick-Goslar and Anne Frank were reunited briefly at Bergen-Belsen, the camp where Anne died
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Film & TV Did Netflix’s ‘Never Have I Ever’ ever get its one Jewish character right?
In season one, Ben Gross was an amalgamation of Jewish stereotypes. By the final season, things got more nuanced
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Film & TV Why the filmmaker who launched 1,000 mushroom trips is trying to create a gratitude movement
The ‘Fantastic Fungi’ director, and son of survivors, wants you to appreciate the ‘little things'
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To some free speech advocates, he was a hero; to Richard Nixon, he was an ‘arrogant intellectual Jew’
Daniel Ellsberg, famous for the 'Pentagon Papers,' has died at 92
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