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Film & TV
The final season of ‘Mrs. Maisel’ undermines TV norms. It saves the show
In its final season, Amazon's hit lets its characters have more fun — and, in doing so, find unexpected depth
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Art Al Jaffee’s MAD Magazine was my personal Talmud
The late comic artist continued a grand Jewish tradition of questioning
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‘I’ve got to get this moment’: This courtroom artist’s sketch of Trump is The New Yorker’s latest cover
Artist Jane Rosenberg's drawing is the first courtroom sketch to ever appear on the magazine's cover
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Film & TV What would a ‘Succession’ shiva look like?
After a major character’s death on the hit HBO show, we imagined the scene at a Roy family shiva
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My dad co-wrote ‘A Rugrats Passover.’ I had questions about it.
The episode is a cultural touchstone, and he’s proud of it. So why didn’t we watch it together?
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FIRST PERSON At a Seder in Nepal, I felt like the wicked son. Then a bluegrass-and-Buddhist Seder invited me in
Sitting among strangers on the other side of the world, a young New Yorker gains a new perspective on ritual, faith and community
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Art How one artist’s work mattered even more than the subjects he photographed
Julius Shulman's photography did a better job of selling buildings than the buildings themselves
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Film & TV In a gripping new thriller series, neutral Switzerland isn’t so neutral after all
Superbly acted, 'Labyrinth of Peace' explodes myths about World War II
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Theater What Ben Platt learned reading Leo Frank’s letters
Paying a visit to YIVO, the ‘Parade’ star comes face to face with history
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Film & TV Hit Christian TV show ‘The Chosen’ is all about Jesus. So why is it so Jewish?
Sure, Jesus was a Jew — but Christians don't usually focus so much on that
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Crowds are expected as Jewish families plan excursions over the Passover holiday
The days in between the first and last days of Passover — chol hamoed — are a time for fun activities
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Culture In 1989, Harold Pinter and Jerry Schatzberg made the perfect Holocaust movie for 2026
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Exclusive Mahmoud Khalil wants to reassure you
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News Jews paused Indiana’s abortion ban — by turning a religious freedom law against the evangelical right
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Culture 70 years ago, this Jewish choreographer predicted our epidemic of loneliness and isolation
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Opinion Trump is backed into a corner on Iran. Get ready for him to start blaming Jews
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Culture Ben Lerner’s tale of three hotels is a lyrical novel of loss and human potential
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