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Culture
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A pitch clock is shortening baseball games. What if synagogues did the same?
These ‘nu’ rules are intended to speed up services
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At ‘The Roast of Antisemitism,’ who gets the last laugh?
In a night to 'fight back,' comedians played it safe
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‘My head was exploding — how could one woman do this to another woman?’
Helen Schulman explains the intersecting lives and shocking betrayals in her latest novel 'Lucky Dogs'
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Theater Glenda Jackson played Jews, acted for Jews and replaced a Jew in parliament
The MP and Oscar winner died at 87
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Books Why the literary world (and every single No. 2 pencil) is mourning the loss of Robert Gottlieb
Gottlieb, 92, editor of Toni Morrison, Robert Caro and more, was an American literary giant
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A famous rabbi’s son died of a disease like the one in Broadway’s ‘Kimberly Akimbo’
Rabbi Harold Kushner wrote ‘When Bad Things Happen to Good People’ after his son died of progeria. Here's why his daughter hasn't seen the Tony-winning show
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FIRST PERSON As a rabbi, he helped others mourn. So why wouldn’t his daughter say kaddish for him?
On Father's Day, the daughter of an abusive man finds comfort in one happy memory: cholent for Shabbat
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Books A new version of the Holocaust’s most famous diary is being called ‘Anne Frank pornography’ and getting banned from schools
Parents have challenged ‘Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation’ in multiple states, with some success
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Reddit is destroying users’ ability to moderate hate speech — so protesters shut the site down
A subreddit blackout is in progress, protesting site changes that could open the door to antisemitism and other forms of hate
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Theater The Tonys honored plays about antisemitism — the winners were eager to talk about anything else
Tom Stoppard, Patrick Marber and Alfred Uhry all missed an opportunity to speak to what their plays were about
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Donald Trump is accused of violating the Espionage Act — so were the Rosenbergs
As some Jewish targets of federal investigations can tell the former president, these charges are no small matter
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Culture ‘My mayor Muslim, my bagel Jewish’ — the Knicks chant capturing New York’s soul
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Opinion Cultural boycotts of Israel just reached peak absurdity
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Opinion The Iran war ended terribly for the US, and even worse for Israel
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Sports Memes, mashiach and ‘Torah-cyclopedias’ put a Jewish twist on the Knicks’ title chase
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News For Iranian Jews who have been cheering Trump on, his new deal is hard to stomach