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I have seen the future of America — in a pastrami sandwich in Queens
San Wei, which serves pastrami sandwiches along with churros and biang biang noodles, represents an immigrant's fulfillment of the American dream
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Building the very best Sukkah — in Uganda
Rabbinical student from Abayudaya community shares joy of Sukkot in children's book
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Behind the swankiest new hotel on the Lower East Side, a swanky Jewish history
Visitors to Nine Orchard might not realize they're living out a Jewish immigrant's American dream
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Did the head of the ADL just praise Elon Musk — by comparing him to a famous antisemite?
In a TV appearance, Jonathan Greenblatt called Musk the 'Henry Ford of our time'
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The secret Jewish history of the Great Chicago Fire
The first person to claim responsibility for the blaze was a young gambler named Louis M. Cohn
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Hulu’s ‘The Patient’ gets at a dynamic rarely seen on TV: Orthodox-Reform tensions
The series’ protagonist is a Jewish therapist whose family is strained when his son joins an Orthodox community
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Art Meet the artist behind the new Hanukkah postage stamp
Jeanette Kuvin Oren drew from Jewish traditional paper cutting to create a silk artwork for the U.S. Postal Service
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Bintel Brief Am I a prude for wanting my roommate to cover up when my parents come over?
‘Living with other people means living with other people’s idiosyncrasies,' Bintel advises
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How that Barbra Streisand ‘Yentl’ joke wound up in the year’s biggest gay rom-com
Guy Branum on ‘Bros,’ being gay and Jewish, and why the star of 'Funny Girl' is a lot like gravity
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He painted like nobody else — so why haven’t more people heard of Sam Szafran?
The self-taught son of Polish Jewish immigrants is now the subject of a major retrospective in Paris
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Art Indisputably, a Jewish genius — but also a pariah and a bumpkin
Steve Stern's 'The Village Idiot' fictionalizes the life of the Belarusian painter Chaim Soutine
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Books In Lena Dunham’s latest, a medieval teen gets a girlboss makeover she doesn’t need
The 'Girls' creator's adaptation of children's novel 'Catherine, Called Birdy' misses everything that made it a cult favorite
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