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Culture
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20 years ago, Marvel introduced a Jewish Black Panther
Kevin Cole, who becomes an ally of the original Black Panther, was 'a character that our readers could identify with and relate to,' said a Marvel editor
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Books It was a pioneering trans library — until the Nazis burned it
In Weimar Germany, the gay Jewish doctor Magnus Hirschfeld performed the first gender-affirming surgeries and collected research on sexuality. The 1933 book burnings destroyed his life's work
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Pay no attention to that big cross he’s wearing — Tom Jones really does have a secret Jewish history
The Welsh singer has covered songs by Bob Dylan and has sung about Samson and Delilah
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Theater How a Jewish scholar became the Shakespeare whisperer helping to make ‘Hamlet’ relevant to our times
James Shapiro first encountered Shakespeare in the classroom, but that's not where he learned to love the Bard
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Any resemblance between these characters and Vladimir Putin’s Russia is strictly intentional
In Paul Goldberg's 'The Dissident,' a Jewish refusenik must try to solve a murder before Henry Kissinger comes to town
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Theater A classic story of immigrant Jews returns to New York — this time as a musical
In ‘The Imported Bridegroom,’ a century-old story still feels relevant
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Music Taylor Swift fans have amnesia. So did Jews after Sinai.
Swifties can learn how to process their memory loss by turning to the Talmud
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Film & TV Is ‘The Idol’ good for Hollywood Jews or ‘torture porn’?
The pilot of the controversial HBO series is chock full of Jews — but not the noblest depictions of them
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Books When a Carole King or a Susan Sontag goes missing, it’s good to have a Jewish detective on the case
in 'The Last Songbird,' Daniel Weizmann puts a new Jewish spin on an LA noir
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Music Is this a vision of heaven or is it a Taylor Swift concert?
For one fan, his parents and 80,000 others, a blissful revelation — from one era to the next
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Art How a Jewish ‘witness of hell’ navigated a landscape of American terror
Born Philip Goldstein, painter Philip Guston was haunted by the tragedies of the past and the horrors of the present
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News Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s selection as JTS commencement speaker roils graduating class
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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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Fast Forward U of Michigan apologizes after faculty chair praises pro-Palestinian students during commencement speech