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The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame just got a little more Jewish (and a little less rock ‘n’ roll)
Al Kooper and Rage Against the Machine are among this year's inductees
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Music The complete ranking of every pop song to ever sample ‘Hava Nagila’
These 19 songs will be stuck in your head for the rest of time. We're not sorry
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Pete Seeger’s 7 most Jewish songs
The great folk singer was also a great spokesinger for Jewish culture
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Film & TV With ‘Jewish Matchmaking’ series, Netflix squanders opportunity to teach viewers about … Jewish matchmaking
Religion and Judaism rarely come up on Netflix's Jewish Matchmaking, starring matchmaker Aleeza Ben Shalom. When it does, it is often not explained
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Books In a first, Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature goes to Hebrew author and translator
"It was important to expand the reach of the prize, and concomitantly and consequentially the reach of these books," said the prize organization's director
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Theater The 2023 Tonys love dead Jews (and some living ones)
‘Leopoldstadt,’ ‘Parade’ and Sondheim revivals pick up nominations
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Film & TV A new Miep Gies show hails Anne Frank’s protector — but ignores the collaborators
Though the Gieses risked their life to save Jews, 'A Small Light' looks away from the many citizens who did nothing
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Books So, what do we do with a monstrous, antisemitic man like Charles Dickens?
The case against the author goes far beyond one offensive character in 'Oliver Twist'
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Film & TV Why ‘Succession’ gave us a Holocaust meme
In ‘Living+’ the show reveals the billionaire class’ affinity for Nazi comparisons
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Coffee and cigarettes: An essay by Etgar Keret
On Israel, family and the value of a good cup of coffee
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Books How Harold Kushner overcame some of life’s disappointments to become a publishing juggernaut
The author of 'When Bad Things Happen to Good People' has died at the age of 88
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