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I love traditional Rosh Hashanah services, but my wife says no to gender-segregated seating
In 1975, Bintel said the husband gets 'the last word.' That won't fly today. But how to resolve differences in High Holiday practices remains an intriguing question
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By bus and train and plane — and ‘Aunt Bessie’ — Jewish activist brought 250,000 to march
Rachelle Horowitz draws lessons for today from civil rights successes and lesser-known actions
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Film & TV Helen Mirren’s Golda is golden — but the film merely glitters
A new biopic of Israel's fourth prime minister is too busy for its own good
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BINTEL BRIEF I feel so disconnected from Jewish life. Help me find the right community
Readers say they’re lost and lonely and nothing seems to fit. Bintel crowdsourced ideas for finding and forging Jewish connections
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Film & TV ‘Being queer is just as normal as turning 13’: Talking with the director of ‘You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah’
Director Sammi Cohen talks bat mitzvah crashing and reflecting the diversity of the Jewish world
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He walked every block of the Bronx and found traces of a vanished Jewish world
William Helmreich died of COVID-19 before his book, ‘The Bronx Nobody Knows,’ was published. His wife is keeping his work alive
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Film & TV You can own Larry David’s mezuzah — and all the questions that come with it
An eBay listing claims to be the ‘Seinfeld’ and ‘Curb’ creator’s Judaica
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Books His memoir was a transcendent look at Black-Jewish relations. Can he pull it off again — in a great American novel?
James McBride, author of 'The Color of Water,' told the Forward about how his family’s story inspired his latest novel — and why writers should stay offline
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How this Romaniote synagogue keeps a Jewish ‘minority within a minority’ alive
Kehila Kedosha Janina, a small synagogue on the Lower East Side, represents a tiny Jewish community that lived in Greece for over 2,300 years
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In remote North Dakota, endless sky, a few gravestones, and the remnants of a little-known Jewish history
While most Jewish immigrants flocked to urban centers, a few — like the Greenbergs — tried their luck as homesteaders
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The Borscht Belt resorts were abandoned long ago. But these signs point to a brighter future
A new trail of historical markers pays tribute to a Jewish vacation hub — and could spur Catskills tourism
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