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Culture
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A life of music and promise shattered by the Holocaust in an unforgettable film
'Winter Journey' is a compelling and original adaptation of Martin Goldsmith's 'The Inextinguishable Symphony'
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Books Magnificent permanent exhibit opens at Amherst’s Yiddish Book Center
Among the many displays are a 1918 Yiddish linotype press and a replica of the great Yiddish writer Y.L. Peretz’s study in Warsaw
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Art In painting the horrors of both Ukraine and Israel at war, an artist finds echoes of Picasso’s ‘Guernica’
Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi has been making art about the October 7th Hamas attacks and their aftermath
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What does it mean when people say Israel and Hamas are fighting a ‘holy war?’
Some Christians are interpreting the violence as the culmination of prophecies about the End Times
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In Galveston, Texas, a refuge for Jews escaping pogroms — and perhaps a lesson for today’s ‘migrant crisis’
For Jewish immigrants, Galveston was once 'the Ellis Island of the West'
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Books Conferences and cultural events with Palestinian ties are being canceled around the US and abroad
Even events unrelated to the Middle East are being scrapped if speakers are deemed anti-Israel
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‘I cry for both of us’: For Jerusalem Youth Chorus, a canceled tour and a shared Jewish-Palestinian grief
The Jerusalem Youth Chorus was founded in the hope of peace — but had to scrap plans for a post-COVID tour because of war
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Music How a cult Scottish-Jewish rock band finally hit the Top 10 more than four decades after they broke up
In 1974, Gentle Giant released the song 'Proclamation.' In 2023, Travis Scott sampled it for his song 'Hyaena.'
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How a few judiciously placed slices of New York Jewish cheesecake changed the world of rock ‘n’ roll
Richard Gottehrer's trip to pop music immortality began with good timing and good dessert
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In PBS series ‘Little Bird,’ a Jewish woman uncovers her traumatic Indigenous past
Co-creator Jennifer Podemski, born to a Jewish father and Indigenous mother, drew heavily on her own experience
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A high-tech answer to the dilemma of how to teach the Holocaust to kids without traumatizing them
"Courage to Act" at the Museum of Jewish Heritage uses hologram-like videos to recount the escape of 95% of Danish Jews to neutral Sweden
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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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Opinion Cultural boycotts of Israel just reached peak absurdity
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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