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Culture
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The towering Jewish critic who taught me to grok art and hate Picasso
After Max Kozloff died at 91, a New York community came together to remember and to mourn
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Film & TV For Paul Newman’s 98th birthday, his lost cinematic masterpiece
Until the Forward tracked it down, "On the Harmfulness of Tobacco" had been all but forgotten
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Theater Two very different Jewish couples confront a very similar sense of dissatisfaction
Anna Ziegler's 'The Wanderers' arrives off-Broadway, starring Katie Holmes
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Theater In savaging the Israeli military, has a legendary puppet theater finally gone too far?
For even some longtime supporters, the politics at Bread and Puppet Theater have gotten too strident
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Scrub Daddy’s viral sponges come in kosher options now
The thirsty TikTok scrubber partnered with Jewish TikToker Melinda Strauss
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Film & TV I want Judd Hirsch to win an Oscar — but not like this
Hirsch is one of our great actors, but his super Jew-y performance in 'The Fabelmans' is not his best work
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How the horrors of WWII turned the righteous into heroes
In Richard Hurowitz's 'Garden of the Righteous,' normal, decent people face extraordinary dangers to become rescuers
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How the consummate Jewish intellectual remained ‘one of the most cheerful Jewish men in the word’
Revered editor and publisher Victor Navasky has died at the age of 90
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Sundance documentary ‘Under G-d’ details the Jewish legal response to the Dobbs decision
Rabbis and Jewish organizations are helping lead lawsuits across the country against Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, alleging their religious freedom has been infringed upon
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Film & TV In season 4 of ‘Fauda,’ Israeli tactics come under fire — and so do the show’s heroes
Doron and his crew reach a breaking point, but is it believable?
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Books In Kafka’s diaries, harsh criticism and sympathetic fascination for his fellow Jews
Newly translated diaries shed light on the author's views on Jewish culture and customs
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Film & TV Does a small autonomous city in Morocco hold the key to religious coexistence?
A new film set in Melilla, a Spanish city on the edge of Morocco, features friendship between Jews, Christians and Muslims
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Opinion After the DC shooting it’s clear: The pro-Palestine movement must be purged of violent extremism
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Opinion I want Palestinians to be free. But hearing the Capital Jewish Museum shooter’s chant terrifies me
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Fast Forward Trump administration says Columbia University ‘continually failed to protect Jewish students’
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Art Ben Shahn was a radical artist — why didn’t he want to be called a Jewish one?
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