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Culture
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Coffee and cigarettes: An essay by Etgar Keret
On Israel, family and the value of a good cup of coffee
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Books How Harold Kushner overcame some of life’s disappointments to become a publishing juggernaut
The author of 'When Bad Things Happen to Good People' has died at the age of 88
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Books ‘When did you learn your grandfather was a Nazi?’ — Burkhard Bilger’s redemptive journey through a complex family history
In 'Fatherland,' the acclaimed New Yorker writer considers the case of an elementary schoolteacher named Karl Gönner
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What happens when medical protocols collide with Jewish values?
A rabbi looks at brain death, COVID quandaries and more in a new book about bioethics
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Books When we all met at Dubrow’s Cafeteria
Photographer Marcia Bricker Halperin reflects on the Jewish diner that shaped her as a Brooklynite and launched her artistic career
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Film & TV In a heart-wrenching film about life after the Holocaust, the makings of a taboo relationship
Set in Budapest, 'Those Who Remained' focuses on the friendship between a middle-aged man and a teenage girl
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Bintel Brief I’m Jewish — and my friend just asked me to help him dispose of Nazi memorabilia
The fine art of telling someone with good intentions that they have upset you
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Film & TV Jerry Springer, son of Jewish refugees and star of TV’s most controversial show, dies at 79
The former mayor of Cincinnati, Jerry Springer, was known for hosting bizarre guests
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Books How these Dutch Jewish artists aided the resistance with children’s books
While hiding from the Nazis, a husband and wife published dozens of children's books anonymously. Now, you can see them at a New York book fair
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Art A is for apron belly, B is for birthmark: How one Jewish artist celebrates all kinds of bodies
Tyler Feder wants to normalize a more accurate depiction of society as it truly is, rather than focusing on one small slice of it
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Music Why Harry Belafonte once joked that he was ‘the most popular Jew in America’
There was more to the singer and activist's engagement with Jewish culture than a hit version of 'Hava Nagila'
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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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News Indiana University removed its Jewish studies director. His replacement has ignited a firestorm over Israel.
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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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