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Culture
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On the northwest side of Chicago, my old Jewish neighborhood may soon live on in infamy
Albany Park was home to Rosenblum's Bookstore, Weinberg's Clothing — and also alleged DC shooter Elias Rodriguez
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Why Bob Dylan’s haunting comeback album sounds just as Jewish as it ever did
1997's 'Time Out of Mind,' with its nods to Solomon and Samson gets a redo courtesy of Columbia Records
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When a Holocaust denier is actually living right downstairs
In the thriller 'The Man in the Basement,' antisemitism hits extremely too close to home
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The secret Jewish history of Dolly Parton
The singer and philanthropist boasts an impressive command of the Jewish Bible.
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Bintel Brief My daughter said I’m ‘code-switching.’ Is that such a bad thing?
Bintel helps a dad figure out if he hides Yiddish vocabulary due to internalized antisemitism
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Film & TV In ‘The Devil’s Confession,’ Adolf Eichmann hangs himself with his own words
The documentary delivers previously unheard audio, but can’t work through its own banality
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Documentary explores the ‘Talmudic’ relationship between writer Robert Caro and his famous longtime editor
Lizzie Gottlieb describes “Turn Every Page” as a sort of buddy movie about her father, Bob Gottlieb and the biographer Robert Caro
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An indecent exposure online exposes controversy in the Orthodox world
When an Orthodox woman's Instagram event was crashed by a naked man, some people blamed her
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How not to commit a tantalizing Seinfeldian faux-pas in Chinatown
To steal the dumplings or let sleeping dumplings lie — that was the dilemma
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How a would-be revolution led to an exodus of Polish Jews
History cuts a love story short in a film about the student uprisings that rocked Poland in 1968
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Film & TV Why is this Jewish artist’s murder confession being hidden again?
A new film faithfully brings Charlotte Salomon's magnum opus to screen, yet excises an essential part
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Books The secret Jewish history of Layla Murad, Egyptian superstar
A new book highlights Murad’s conversion story — and the complex Arab culture that helped guide it
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