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Culture
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The legacy of Isaac Babel, Russia’s Jewish Hemingway, is dissected in new Chicago play
'Describe the Night,' which features a non-Jewish actor playing Babel, blends three stories from different eras.
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BINTEL BRIEF I’m thinking of sponsoring a kiddush to celebrate Trump’s indictment. Is that wrong?
A reader seeks a — potentially controversial — outlet for their glee
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Evangelicals love to compare Trump to King David — but just how similar are they?
David slept with Batsheva, Trump slept with Stormy Daniels — and the similarities end there
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Art A Jewish painter, perhaps, but undeniably a spiritually transcendent one
Standing before the paintings of Helen Frankenthaler, it's hard not to feel a sense of awakening
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Music A new album blends klezmer and American folk — and is at home in both
‘In Der Heym/Down Home’ shows how two musical styles have a lot in common
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Books So, what did Jorge Luis Borges really think of the Jews?
Though he was often called a philosemite, the truth is a lot messier
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‘Please don’t stop’: Pandemic project of daily Magna-Tiles messages passes 1,000-day mark
Despite rising antisemitism, family proudly displays Jewish and Hebrew phrases on garage doors
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From frog candlesticks to watermelon menorahs — meet the designer making Instagram’s favorite Judaica
Susan Alexandra's 'kooky' new Passover collection is for more than just Seder
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In rural America’s ‘matzo deserts,’ Jews struggle to set their Seder tables
Sometimes, Christian Seders buy up all the matzo in the few stores that sell it
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Why Maimonides is the ideal mind for surviving the era of Fake News
Alberto Manguel’s Jewish Lives book on Rambam reveals a thinker guided by reason
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BINTEL BRIEF My sister cut me out of her life after our father died. How do I fix this?
Bintel says you can open the door — but you can’t make her walk through
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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 The Iran war looks like a failure. Now comes the Trump-Netanyahu spin game
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Fast Forward US and Iran agree to ‘fragile’ 2-week ceasefire; Israel says deal does not extend to Lebanon
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Music An 82-year-old Jewish recording legend on his film directing debut: ‘I could have been good at this’
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