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Film & TV
In a brilliantly performed film, a great Jewish narcissist seeks death with dignity
François Ozon's 'Everything Went Fine' is an unnerving account of assisted suicide
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Theater ‘An American Tail’ musical adaptation hopes a Jewish immigration story will resonate in 2023
The team hopes to tour the show if it has success at the Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis
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The rabbis warned us against reality shows like ‘Love Is Blind’
There's a reason the Talmud had such a strong prohibition on shaming others.
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Theater Topol was a spy. This demands a ‘Fiddler’ song parody.
With news that the beloved Israeli icon worked for Mossad, we wrote a musical response
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Film & TV How a gift for music saved one man from the Nazis
The PBS documentary 'How Saba Kept Singing' tells the affecting tale of Holocaust survivor David Wisnia
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At a Manhattan ‘Mrs. Maisel’ takeover, megafans and mealy cookies
Vintage fashion and blocked sidewalks, courtesy of Manischewitz. What’s not to love?
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Hey Bud Light boycotters: Did you know you’re imitating a Jewish LGBTQ+ activist?
Harvey Milk's campaign against Coors for discriminatory hiring practices massively impacted the company's bottom line
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Film & TV A ‘Harry Potter’ reboot is coming — here are our unsolicited ideas for Jewish plotlines
J.K. Rowling has come under fire for, among many other things, possible antisemitic stereotypes in her books
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A Japanese diplomat saved this cellist’s father-in-law from the Shoah. Now she’ll honor him at Carnegie Hall
Kristina Reiko Cooper conceived 'A Concert for Sugihara' while grappling with the 'mass displacement of refugees' today
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One of history’s great artists may have had Jewish ancestry — is that why he freed his enslaved protege?
Juan de Pareja, once enslaved by Diego Velázquez, is the subject of a new exhibit at the Met
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BINTEL BRIEF I converted to marry. Now I’m divorced and my ex says I can’t be Jewish
Bintel thinks your ex is a jerk, but let’s see what the Talmud says
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Culture 70 years ago, this Jewish choreographer predicted our epidemic of loneliness and isolation
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