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Culture
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He used to think Jewish athletes were a punchline; now, he wants to help them get a proper paycheck
Jeremy Moses, co-founder of Tribe NIL, believes his new initiative can help Jewish student-athletes finally profit off of their talent
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Why small town Jews buried their dead in big cities — and what those journeys reveal today
Funeral trains linked isolated Jews to larger communities, revealing how belonging could stretch across counties, rail lines, and faiths
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Art It’s time to reconsider what we know about Jewish birthing rituals
At the Museum on Eldridge Street, ‘First Light: Birth in the Jewish Tradition’ merges tradition with modern understandings of birthing customs
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Looking Forward My favorite Christmas scene in literature — and why it makes me feel so Jewish
Louisa May Alcott's 'Eight Cousins' is set in a distinctly un-Jewish milieu, but I saw myself on the page all the same
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Film & TV A lackluster exhibit gives short shrift to Claude Lanzmann’s legacy — and to the Shoah’s victims
‘Voices from the Shoah Tapes’ at The New York Historical is a pale shadow of a proper tribute in Berlin
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Film & TV ‘Marty Supreme’ is an outstanding celebration — and indictment — of chutzpah
Josh Safdie's period epic sees Timothée Chalamet vying for ping-pong supremacy
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Film & TV In ‘The Secret Agent,’ a peek into Brazilian Jewish history — and a warning against propaganda
Set during the Brazilian dictatorship of the late 20th century, a fugitive meets a Holocaust survivor mistaken for a Nazi.
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Theater The Jewish playwright who inspired Tom Stoppard to write his Holocaust history
Arthur Schnitzler’s Austria was a major influence on ‘Leopoldstadt’
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Film & TV Israel’s 2025 Oscar entry is a story of grief, sex and looming national tragedy
Tom Nesher’s ‘Come Closer’ is premiering in New York
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Film & TV Why do people want ‘Zootopia 2’ to be about Israel?
Should we read anything into cartoon lynxes who control the government and the weather?
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She was a dancer who leapt to the top of her field — then the Trump administration fired her
Former Kennedy Center dance director Jane Raleigh is still trying to choreograph her next steps
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