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How do I get my elderly relatives to stop driving?
Bintel says honor them by keeping them safe. Here's how to help figure out if it’s time to take away the car keys.
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Film & TV Speaking of ‘White House Plumbers,’ have you seen this Jewish Watergate werewolf movie?
‘Werewolf of Washington’ imagined the Nixon administration beset by a lycanthrope
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Music The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame just got a little more Jewish (and a little less rock ‘n’ roll)
Al Kooper and Rage Against the Machine are among this year's inductees
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Music The complete ranking of every pop song to ever sample ‘Hava Nagila’
These 19 songs will be stuck in your head for the rest of time. We're not sorry
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Pete Seeger’s 7 most Jewish songs
The great folk singer was also a great spokesinger for Jewish culture
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Film & TV With ‘Jewish Matchmaking’ series, Netflix squanders opportunity to teach viewers about … Jewish matchmaking
Religion and Judaism rarely come up on Netflix's Jewish Matchmaking, starring matchmaker Aleeza Ben Shalom. When it does, it is often not explained
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Books In a first, Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature goes to Hebrew author and translator
"It was important to expand the reach of the prize, and concomitantly and consequentially the reach of these books," said the prize organization's director
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Theater The 2023 Tonys love dead Jews (and some living ones)
‘Leopoldstadt,’ ‘Parade’ and Sondheim revivals pick up nominations
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Film & TV A new Miep Gies show hails Anne Frank’s protector — but ignores the collaborators
Though the Gieses risked their life to save Jews, 'A Small Light' looks away from the many citizens who did nothing
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Books So, what do we do with a monstrous, antisemitic man like Charles Dickens?
The case against the author goes far beyond one offensive character in 'Oliver Twist'
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Film & TV Why ‘Succession’ gave us a Holocaust meme
In ‘Living+’ the show reveals the billionaire class’ affinity for Nazi comparisons
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Culture Mamdani’s first statement on antisemitism as mayor-elect got some weird pushback
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Opinion I spoke out against Mamdani. Then he won. Here’s how we walk forward together.
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Opinion Why a concert hall should be the last place for a protest — particularly an antisemitic one like this
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News Indiana University removed its Jewish studies director. His replacement has ignited a firestorm over Israel.
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Opinion Settlers torched a West Bank mosque — and the milquetoast Israeli mainstream response won’t suffice
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Culture This Jesus horror movie could have used more heresy
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Film & TV Her parents fled Mexico and Mandatory Palestine, taking their traumas with them
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Looking Forward So, there was a swastika at my Airbnb
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