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I sat shiva for my sister because she hates Israel. Should I bother reconciling?
Bintel says boundaries might help mend this ‘Sister Split’ — but it won’t be easy
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No, Steely Dan hasn’t aged all that well, but then again, neither have we
'Quantum Criminals' reveals the jaundiced and Jewish-inflected cynicism behind the slick musicianship of Steely Dan
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Film & TV Dan Stein is a New Orleans icon. ‘Queer Eye’ just didn’t get his Jewishness
The Fab Five tried to mold Stein into a perfect boyfriend, but at heart he seems to be a grumpy — and loving — Jewish man
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Theater He was Germany’s most popular playwright — here’s why you may not have heard of him
Jewish writer Ernst Toller lived the radical ideals he expressed in his plays
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Art Why’s a microwave baking matzo? And why does that 400-year-old menorah have a lightbulb?
Artist Mark Podwal's woodcuts bring a fresh take on 16th century images to Eldridge Street
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Film & TV Elon Musk doesn’t understand George Soros — or Magneto — but he’s great at antisemitism
On Twitter, Musk compared two very different Holocaust survivors
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Books It was the million-selling novel that shaped a generation of Jews — does anybody still read it?
Leon Uris' epic 'Exodus,' and the film it inspired, once played a crucial role in changing American attitudes to Israel
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Apparently, tefillin are sexy — why do you think that is?
Maybe it's the godliness, maybe it's the leather
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Overwhelmed planning a shiva? Here’s how to ask for help
‘If anyone asks you what they can do, don’t feel you’re being polite by saying ‘Oh, nothing’’
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Billboards urge people to convert to Christianity — but can they make antisemites see the light?
An old-fashioned form of advertising has become the go-to for religious causes. Why?
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75 years ago, Israel gained independence. How did the media cover it?
We surveyed the front pages of papers at home and abroad to learn how the world understood Israel’s founding
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Culture In 1989, Harold Pinter and Jerry Schatzberg made the perfect Holocaust movie for 2026
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News Jews paused Indiana’s abortion ban — by turning a religious freedom law against the evangelical right
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Exclusive Mahmoud Khalil wants to reassure you
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Culture 70 years ago, this Jewish choreographer predicted our epidemic of loneliness and isolation
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