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‘Bridgerton’ mastermind and ‘Queen Charlotte’ author also makes a mean matzo ball soup
There weren't a lot of Jewish aristocrats in the Regency era, but that doesn't keep Julia Quinn from drawing on her personal history
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Is New York’s most ubiquitous Jew leaving New York behind?
For the past half-century, Larry 'Ratso' Sloman has been everywhere in the city — now in his 70s, he may have had enough
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This visionary Jewish writer had several aliases, so it’s hard to know who she really was
There was a brilliance to Anna Margolin's writing, but also many great mysteries
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Music Did an obscure Bob Dylan song by way of Woody Guthrie predict the 2023 battle for women’s rights?
A recent story out of Danville, Illinois makes 1984's 'New Danville Girl' — co-written by Sam Shepard — seem eerily prescient
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Theater It’s a giant musical about Jesus – with a Jewish producer. Will it make America believe?
'His Story,' by 22-year-old Anna Miriam Brown, is a 'Broadway-style' theatrical spectacle. Whether it's also an evangelizing event depends on whom you ask
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Film & TV Investigation: How Midge Maisel and Philip Roth’s wedding ended before the altar
What would the courtship of the prickly novelist and the comedian yield?
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Art His art is chock-full of American pop culture references, so why is it more popular abroad?
Jonathan Horowitz uses icons like Madonna and Michael Jackson to take on authoritarianism and antisemitism
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BINTEL BRIEF How do I get my elderly relatives to stop driving?
Bintel says honor them by keeping them safe. Here's how to help figure out if it’s time to take away the car keys.
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Film & TV Speaking of ‘White House Plumbers,’ have you seen this Jewish Watergate werewolf movie?
‘Werewolf of Washington’ imagined the Nixon administration beset by a lycanthrope
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Music 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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Culture 70 years ago, this Jewish choreographer predicted our epidemic of loneliness and isolation
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