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Music
For one Jewish rock ’n’ roll legend, loving Sandy Koufax and R.E.M. is not a contradiction
With The Baseball Project supergroup, Steve Wynn has found a way to embrace his two passions
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My boyfriend made me into an AI bot. It’s really, really Jewish
Can ChatGPT be a Jewish woman?
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Before Google, before Wikipedia, this DIY almanac shaped a Jewish generation
Even if you've never heard of 'The Jewish Catalog,' which turns 50 this year, it probably changed your life.
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Film & TV Elie Wiesel reviewed ‘Oppenheimer’ — and it made him shudder
In 1969 the author of ‘Night’ was shaken by a play about the father of the atom bomb
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What do you do with a Jewish cemetery in a town without Jews?
Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, once had a thriving Jewish community. What happened when their dead were left in one woman’s care?
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Jonah Hill’s therapy-speak exposes the dark side of the Nice Jewish Boy
The drama surrounding Hill's ex-girlfriend reveals the way therapy-speak is dangerous
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Film & TV Alan Arkin and the three pillars of Judaism
Though not an observant Jew, the actor embodied more than a few Jewish values
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Is Barbie Jewish? The complex Jewish history of the doll, explained
One of the most anticipated blockbuster movies in recent years takes on the doll with a uniquely American Jewish story
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This massive collection of 11 million postage stamps represents every life lost in the Holocaust
The stamps, collected by children, are on display at the American Philatelic Society with letters from survivors and victims
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Books A Catholic photographer and Chicago’s cannabis king: How I tracked down the greatest bar mitzvah photo of all time
Two gawky teenagers shared a slow dance at a bar mitzvah in the 1990s. 30 years later, it took every Jew I knew to find them
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Fiction excerpt: The Baron of East Broadway, by Jerome Charyn
On the Lower East Side, Ab Cahan is once again the Pulitzer of Yiddish Land, the William Randolph Hearst of the Jewish ghetto
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News Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s selection as JTS commencement speaker roils graduating class
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Opinion How Israel became a country where teenagers murder each other in cold blood
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Sports NBA coach Steve Kerr: ‘Israel sought revenge for Oct. 7 and now 72,000 Palestinians have been killed’
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Film & TV A new documentary challenges stereotypes about Orthodox Jewish women — and their wigs
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Books This graphic novel illustrates the story of America’s first Jewish congregation — pirates and all
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Theater A new musical wonders: What happened to solidarity with English Jews?
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Fast Forward Support for Iran war among ‘connected’ US Jews falls again, poll finds
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Yiddish אַ פֿאָלקסטימלעכע שטימונג אויפֿן אַמסטערדאַמער ייִדיש־סימפּאָזיוםA folksy approach to this year’s Yiddish symposium in Amsterdam
דער שוועדישער פֿאַרלעגער ניקאָלײַ אָלניאַנסקי האָט דערציילט ווי ער האָט אָנגעהויבן אַרויסגעבן קינדערביכלעך אויף ייִדיש.