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Culture
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Grok said Hebrew translation was disabled on X — but it’s not
Why did the social media platform's built-in AI bot hallucinate something so easy to disprove?
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Film & TV In ‘31 Candles,’ a manchild becomes bar mitzvah to court his crush
The rom-com is a messy meditation on American Jewry
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Books The Nazis would have embraced these elite Germans — nevertheless, they resisted
Jonathan Freedland's latest explores why a small group of aristocrats, army officers, diplomats and teachers joined a 'Traitors Circle'
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The world’s oldest known medieval Judaica relic is now its most valuable, too
The 12th-century Kiddush cup, which sheds light on the little-known Jewish community of eastern Khorasan, went for $4 million
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Books In Israel, she’s a national heroine — Americans are starting to understand why
Douglas Century's riveting 'Crash of the Heavens' chronicles the courage of Hannah Senesh
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Hey, Irving — why are there so many Jews named Irving?
A mystery of Jewish nomenclature finally solved — in honor of all the Miltons, Seymours, Sidneys and Irvings out there
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Art How Mussolini’s Jewish lover changed Fascist art and design
Margherita Sarfatti, known as 'the uncrowned Queen of Italy,' had a passion for Fascism and Futurism
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In the most talked-about Epstein File exchange, a lesson in Yiddish
When speaking of Donald Trump’s travails, Epstein invoked ‘tsuris’
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When Jews really did wage a ‘war on Christmas’
A new book recalls the “The Great Christmas Boycott of 1906,” when immigrants fought for the separation of church and state in public schools
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This Jesus horror movie could have used more heresy
Critics worried 'The Carpenter's Son' would be blasphemous but it hews to orthodox interpretations
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Film & TV Her parents fled Mexico and Mandatory Palestine, taking their traumas with them
In the documentary ‘Traces of Home,’ Colette Ghunim grapples with the burdens she hoped she'd never have to face
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Culture Inside the ancient Christian theology driving modern antisemitism
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News Mamdani to attend Passover Seder as he navigates ties with Jewish groups amid rising antisemitism
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