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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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How Jews helped inspire J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’
The Catholic author took inspiration from his own World War II-era friendship with the Jewish historian Cecil Roth
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Picking a new rabbi? A new novel about a church shows how
Michelle Huneven’s book set at a California church goes deep into the sausage-making at liberal houses of worship.
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23 totally accurate and sane Jewish pop culture predictions for 2023
Curious what celebrity shenanigans will dominate the year to come? Look into our crystal ball
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The hottest Jewish trends for 2023 (and the 2022 fads we won’t miss)
Look for deli raves, Nora Ephron and Yiddish women writers to dominate the new year
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How the iconic Barbara Walters led the charge against antisemitism and social injustice (sometimes)
The first Jewish co-host of a news program spoke out against Spiro Agnew's bigotry, but seemed to give others a pass
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Why was 2022 the year TV turned really, really Jewish?
Jews have always had a presence on the small screen. But this year, their stories took on new nuance
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A visitor to Paris finds a dark layer of Jewish history in the City of Light
Beyond the city's wine, food and fashion, the tragic fate of French Jews in World War II is hiding in plain sight
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Film & TV The best Jewish (and Jew-ish) movies of 2022
The year's best Jewish films engaged with the complicated legacy of Jewish storytelling
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‘Married to the Mob,’ but under a chuppah: A new memoir details a Jewish family’s crime ties
Alan Geik chronicles the hitmen, gangsters and dirty cops who were part of his Bronx extended family in the heyday of the Jewish mob
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What does it mean to be ‘Jew-ish’? How the term went from warm inside joke to national flashpoint
In the hands of George Santos and Kanye West, 'Jew-ish' means something very different than it used to
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Jew vs. ‘jew:’ Google’s offensive definition causes a (brief) online stir
The search engine defaulted to showing a derogatory use of 'jew' as a verb
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