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Culture
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I have seen the future of America — in a pastrami sandwich in Queens
San Wei, which serves pastrami sandwiches along with churros and biang biang noodles, represents an immigrant's fulfillment of the American dream
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Jimmy, Saul or David? How ‘Better Call Saul’ upends a biblical rivalry
Names matter in the world of “Better Call Saul” — especially the title character's
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We spoke to Miriam, the Hebrew tutor Nathan Fielder hired for his fake family on HBO’s ‘The Rehearsal’
Meet Miriam Eskenasy: "an Israeli, New York, chutzpahdik, Jewish person"
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The secret Jewish history of ‘For All Mankind’
The acclaimed series from Apple TV+ was just renewed for a fourth season
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Books Growing up with a Jewish mom and a famous dad he never knew — the jazz musician Roy Ayers
Nabil Ayers' memoir reflects on family, identity and his journey to connect with a Black father who was 'really just DNA'
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Why conspiracy theorists keep turning to Jewish mysticism — from early Nazis to modern-day MAGA
A viral clip of a Trump supporter blissfully misunderstanding Jewish mystic numerology raised old questions about how Kabbalah is understood by the public
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The secret Jewish history of Napoleon Bonaparte
Was Napoleon good for the Jews? One historian says yes
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Art Once buried in Europe, a Hitler puppet stashed in Frank Oz’s Oakland attic tells his family’s Holocaust story
A new exhibit shows several puppets crafted by the legendary puppeteer and director’s parents, who fled Antwerp during WWII
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Film & TV To save Jews and keep the Nazis away, these doctors invented a fake infectious disease
The new documentary “Syndrome K” looks at a great unheralded Holocaust survival story
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The Jewish ‘songs’ of Alain Resnais
A retrospective for the filmmaker’s 100th birthday finds a mixed, but compelling, bag of Jewish content
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This portrait of a 10-year-old killed in Uvalde is helping to heal a broken community
Israeli American artist Anat Ronen's mural is part of a project memorializing the school shooting victims
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Film & TV The newest episode of ‘The Rehearsal’ rehearses centuries of Christian-Jewish tensions
Nathan Fielder tries interfaith co-parenting with a devout Christian, and it goes about as well as you'd expect
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