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Culture
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Once upon a time, eager acolytes thought their false Messiah could make their country great again — sound familiar?
On the strange but insistent parallels between Sabbatai Sevi of Smyrna and Donald Trump of Queens
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Film & TV How William Friedkin, a Jewish kid from Chicago, made us fear the Catholic devil
The director of ‘The Exorcist’ and ‘French Connection’ is dead at 87
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Her father documented the devastation at Nagasaki and Hiroshima — now she’s considered an honorary second-generation survivor
For Leslie Sussan, a 'New York Quaker Jew,' telling her dad's story is one way of trying to repair the world
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Books Something wonderful is happening in the world of Jewish poetry
At the Yetzirah Poetry Conference, some Jewish poets feel they have finally found their very own shul
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How a scandalous Jewish no-goodnik captured the imagination of the world
For more than a century, audiences have thrilled to the temptations of Salome and 'Salomania'
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Books Inspired by Chabad and a teenage mom, he’s given more than a million books to kids in need
BookSmiles is now one of the largest book banks in the nation
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Film & TV Did ‘Borat’ warn us about Rudy Giuliani’s further fall from grace?
His recorded remarks recall an infamous cameo in Sacha Baron Cohen’s film
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BINTEL BRIEF Rabbis didn’t love our advice on dating a rabbi
In the words of one rabbi, Bintel 'got this one wrong'
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In New York, migrants crowd into hotels seeking shelter — just like Jewish refugees did after WWII
At the Roosevelt, the Park West and the Belnord, echoes of Holocaust survivors' stories
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Comparing his indictment to Nazi Germany, Donald Trump is right for extremely wrong reasons
The indicted former president's glib accusations unwittingly invoke the specter of the philosopher Carl Schmitt
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Long before the blockbuster movie, Barbie taught me how to embrace Judaism — and celebrate Yom Kippur
A 2005 documentary showed me that the history of Barbie and the history of American Jews are weirdly connected
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Opinion The Iran war ended terribly for the US, and even worse for Israel
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