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Culture
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At the vice president’s house, a hot and muggy celebration of Jewish pride
Vice President Kamala Harris quoted from the Talmud. And for once, Rep. Adam Schiff tried to avoid the spotlight
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Film & TV Why the Israeli ‘Euphoria’ creator couldn’t wait to go to jail
In ‘Bad Boy,’ Ron Leshem and Hagar Ben-Asher tell the story of a troubled, funny teen prisoner
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FIRST PERSON I fast on Yom Kippur but don’t go to synagogue. And there are many Jews like me
Here’s why we fast on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar — but we don’t pray, repent or ask forgiveness
The Latest
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From ‘Star Wars’ to Madonna: 11 times shofars showed up outside shul
The instrument, while lacking in versatility, nonetheless makes the odd non-liturgical appearance
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One jalapeno cheddar with schmear — inside Mexico City’s hand-rolled bagel renaissance
Remote workers, a long-standing Jewish community and COVID lockdowns sparked a bagel boom
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Books Elon Musk doubted biblical miracles but loves Mel Brooks
Walter Isaacson's doorstopper biography reveals a skeptical Musk who likes Jewish humor
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Film & TV For ‘Rabbi On The Block,’ the street is her pulpit
A second documentary follows antiviolence activist Tamar Manasseh
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Books A Jewish writer confronts the other 9/11, and urges us to never forget it
Ariel Dorfman's 'Suicide Museum' investigates the day in 1973 when Chilean president Salvador Allende died during a bloody coup
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How I stumbled upon thousands of Holocaust-era letters and traced the stories behind them
The letters were hidden in plain sight at Yad Vashem. Most of their writers’ families had never seen them. Until now.
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This editor helped thousands of Holocaust survivors. But he rarely talked about it.
Isaac Metzker was the driving force behind the Forward's Seeking Relatives and Bintel Brief columns
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How one newspaper column saved lives, reunited families and changed the course of Jewish history
During the Holocaust and its aftermath, the Forward's Seeking Relatives helped thousands when no one else could
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News Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s selection as JTS commencement speaker roils graduating class
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Film & TV A new documentary challenges stereotypes about Orthodox Jewish women — and their wigs
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Fast Forward Cornell’s Jewish president clashes with students following on-campus debate about Israel
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Fast Forward U of Michigan apologizes after faculty chair praises pro-Palestinian students during commencement speech