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Culture
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Is saying that Jews are wealthy and powerful really a compliment?
Kanye West and others argue that conspiracy theories about Jews can't be antisemitic — they're too nice
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Books Amazon CEO says he’ll still sell that antisemitic movie Kyrie Irving tweeted about
Removing ‘Hebrews to Negroes’ would leave out customers with ‘different viewpoints’
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Film & TV They hate to see a girlboss getting divorced: ‘My Unorthodox Life’ is back
In the Netflix reality show's second season, formerly Haredi fashion mogul Julia Haart finds that her divorce threatens her image as a powerful professional woman
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Film & TV How a Jewish family saved Thomas Jefferson’s home
'The Levys of Monticello' focuses on a Sephardic clan who, like the country's 3rd president, enslaved people
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Music Guitar hero, defender of Dylan, leftist, Trumpist, a good friend and his own worst enemy — Danny Kalb was one of a kind
At one point, the fleet-fingered musician was touted as leader of the Jewish Beatles. Then, he fell off the map.
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Film & TV Haredi Jews won a legal battle against conversion therapy — a new film shows the fight’s not over
‘Queer and Frum’ explores life after coming out
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Film & TV ‘We enjoy being in shul together’: Tony Kushner talks about his friendship with Steven Spielberg
Why Kushner was the perfect screenwriter for Spielberg's 'Fabelmans'
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Film & TV This might just be the unlikeliest Jewish couple you’ve ever seen in a movie
Harriet Rossetto and Mark Borovitz find happiness in 'The Jewish Jail Lady and the Holy Thief'
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Film & TV Why Stephen Sondheim is in ‘Glass Onion’
The late Broadway icon was also a puzzle fanatic and lover of murder mysteries
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At this deli, the food is as fake as the orgasms — and 7 other lessons from an exhibit about Jewish culinary culture
'I'll Have What She's Having' offers dollops of the foreign and the familiar at the New-York Historical Society
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Who is Kanye West and Donald Trump’s antisemitic new friend, Nick Fuentes?
The leader of the groypers, the 24-year-old is an outspoken white supremacist
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Film & TV The new ‘Superman’ is being called anti-Israel, but does that make it pro-Palestine?
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Fast Forward Tucker Carlson calls for stripping citizenship from Americans who served in the Israeli army
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Opinion This German word explains Trump’s authoritarian impulses — and Hitler’s rise to power
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Music ‘No matter what, I will always be a Jew.’ Billy Joel opens up about his family’s Holocaust history
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Culture Rabbi, get your gun
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Opinion How I got AI to create fake Nazi memos — and what that means for the future of antisemitism
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Fast Forward How the Jewish commandment to ‘be fruitful and multiply’ could help a woman challenge Kentucky’s abortion ban in court
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Yiddish ווידעאָ: יוטוב־פּערזענלעכקייט רעדט אויף ייִדיש וועגן אַ משפּחה־טראַגעדיעVIDEO: Youtube personality speaks in Yiddish about a tragedy in the family
מאַטי מענדלאָוויטשעס ברודער, וואָס האָט יאָרן לאַנג געליטן פֿון דעפּרעסיע, האָט הײַיאָר זיך גענומען דאָס לעבן. .
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