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Culture
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‘Extrapolations’ gives us an amazing Black rabbi (and a lot of embarrassing white Jews)
Daveed Diggs’ performance moves the Jewish story forward, but tired tropes hold the show back
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FOOD To avert extinction, the gefilte fish I loved had to evolve
Cooking gefilte fish stinks up the house and many people won't eat it. Here's how I keep it on my Passover menu
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Art In this striking portrait of an Ethiopian Jew, she found a surprising connection to her family history
Turns out the background of Kehinde Wiley's painting was inspired by a 19th centry mizrah
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Why the biblical story of David and Batsheva keeps trending on Twitter
The episode is key to the debate around sexual abuse in evangelical churches
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Film & TV What does Adam Sandler’s Mark Twain Prize say about (Jewish) American humor?
Adam Sandler may be the least Jewish comic to win the award
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Music Peter Gabriel’s not-so-secret Jewish weapon — and his little side project called King Crimson
When the rocker goes out on tour for the first time in a decade, Tony Levin will be there alongside him
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David Strathairn plays historic Holocaust witness Jan Karski in PBS’s ‘Remember This’
The film is airing as part of the Great Performances series and will be accompanied by a documentary about Karski, a non-Jewish Pole who infiltrated the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942
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A new dance club in Williamsburg is bringing Tel Aviv party culture to Brooklyn
The new Jewish-owned club, inspired by the late-night Tel Aviv scene, has already become a fixture of Brooklyn nightlife
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Film & TV How Spielberg’s Oscar losses paved the way for ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’
‘The Fabelmans’ ditched the genre trappings that the Daniels embraced
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Film & TV Why ‘pi’ is Darren Aronofsky’s best — and most Jewish — film
Now showing in IMAX, the film was inspired by the director’s trip to Israel
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Film & TV How Topol got to be Tevye
The unofficial historian of 'Fiddler on the Roof' remembers Chaim Topol's story of how he became a star
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