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For Ed Asner, a posthumous triumph in a less-than-triumphant final film
The actor delivers a bravura performance as a Holocaust survivor in 'The Tiger Within'
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Film & TV How (and why) did a Bollywood movie make Auschwitz into a lesson on romance?
A new Indian movie takes a tour of the Holocaust sites for unusual reasons
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How Jewishness inspired Sinead O’Connor
The singer, who died at the age of 56, revered Barbra Streisand and had a 'Jewish period'
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Film & TV Billy Wilder’s Cold War satire was ahead of its time. Is that why it got the cold shoulder?
‘One, Two, Three’ is one of the director's fizziest comedies
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Film & TV Why are Jews suing to block abortion bans?
Paula Eiselt's documentary 'Under G-d' argues that religious freedom requires pro-choice public policy
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Can this traveling Holocaust museum fix Holocaust education?
An exhibit designed to be installed in schools aims to make Holocaust education more impactful
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‘You just feel devastated; people are leaving in a state of complete depression’ — the view on the ground from a poet in Israel
Yudit Shahar is a veteran of many protests; she says this one feels different
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She wrote ‘Gigi’ and inspired a Keira Knightley movie — was she also a Nazi collaborator?
To save her husband from the Nazis, did Colette become one?
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If Jews need an excuse to leave Twitter, X marks the spot
The rebrand is yet another sign of a company in bigoted freefall
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Is ‘Barbie’ Jewish? Is ‘Barbie’ Shabbat? Is ‘Barbie’ the Book of Genesis? Four drunk Jews discuss
'Does Barbie have a concept of religion or Jewishness? Depends who plays with her'
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Music Tony Bennett’s 10 greatest songs by Jewish songwriters
Irving Berlin and the Gershwins were among the many immortalized by the legendary singer
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