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Can Massachusetts really be as antisemitic as they say?
The state may have the country's fourth-highest percentage of Jews, but a recent report from the ADL is cause for alarm
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BINTEL BRIEF How do I get my control-freak husband to back off?
Bintel says set some boundaries — and tell him to 'quit banging the teakettle'
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Theater A transparently Jewish musical is finally speaking its truth and singing its faith
Faith Soloway discusses the process of adapting the hit TV show 'Transparent' to the stage and putting it to music
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How ‘Some Like it Hot’ got to Broadway — and lost a very Jewish song in the process
Tony nominees Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman share a demo of a cut song and chat about their inspirations and initial fears about taking on the classic comedy
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Film & TV ‘Succession’ is over. But have you seen Jesse Armstrong’s Woody Allen-inspired short?
Well before he took on the Murdochs, Armstrong chronicled the life of a misfit Welsh pseudo-Jew
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Film & TV I wrote comedy for Mary Tyler Moore and Carl Reiner — and I support the writers’ strike
A TV veteran who joined the guild in 1973 explains what's at stake
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The secret Jewish history of the Indianapolis 500
Alon Day, Peter Revson and Carl Fisher are names that should be known alongside Mario Andretti and A.J. Fo\yt
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The greatest war story my ski trooper uncle ever told
Sam Meiselman was a member of the army's elite 10th Mountain Division
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This mikvah was hidden for 500 years — it’s still a place for purification and connection
In Sicily, at Europe's oldest surviving ritual bath, a chance encounter that maybe wasn't so chance, after all
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Film & TV ‘Fauda’ meets ‘Homeland’ meets crummy documentary in ‘Ghosts of Beirut’
The show by ‘Fauda’ co-creators and director Greg Barker is a messy cat-and-mouse game
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FIRST PERSON Why I bought a headstone for a Holocaust survivor I never knew
The dead man was a hustler despised by other Jews. But to honor him was to honor the vanished world of Milwaukee's Jews
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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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Theater ‘Dirty Dancing’ be damned. A new musical shows another side of the Borscht Belt
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