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Culture
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Apparently, antisemitic bots are the least of our AI worries
Bing's new chatbot apparently harbors plans of world domination. Yes, really.
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Books In this new play, all unhappy (Jewish) families are alike — and some look suspiciously familiar
Literary gossip! Emotional affairs! Katie Holmes! 'The Wanderers,' Anna Ziegler's off-Broadway play about marriage and fidelity, has it all.
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How the anti-sex scene backlash has its roots in antisemitism
Online opposition to sex scenes evokes the Hays Code, which was designed to uphold 'moral standards.' But whose?
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BINTEL BRIEF Is it possible to find your bashert on a dating app?
Bintel advises a student who wants to date Jewish, but isn't having any luck swiping
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On ‘Seinfeld,’ Raquel Welch wasn’t afraid to make fun of herself
The sex symbol had one of the sitcom’s more memorable cameos
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Would you wait in line for 2 hours for a falafel? They certainly would.
For those in search of one of the greatest dining experiences in Paris, look no further than the Jewish quarter
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Music Why Prokofiev once called himself ‘the only Jewish composer’
The Russian composer produced one of the most significant works about Jewish cultural identity
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Music How one of the giants of jazz composed a hymn for Black-Jewish unity
Dave Brubeck's 1969 opus ‘Gates of Justice’ is on its way to UCLA
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Film & TV How Hollywood found its Anne Frank — and why it wasn’t Audrey Hepburn
Before the 1959 film, Millie Perkins was an 18-year-old model who had never really thought about acting
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At the Western Wall, a woman in her underwear protests modesty limits
Requirements for prayer at the Jerusalem holy site have long been contentious
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All the Jew(ish) Super Bowl 2023 ads
Between Ma&Ya's and the Snapchat commercial, it was all a bit much
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Opinion In Bruce Springsteen’s new anti-ICE protest song, a nod to Minnesota’s own Bob Dylan
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Holy Ground A millennial rabbi built a synagogue where others have closed. Her maverick ideas are becoming a model.
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Fast Forward After Minneapolis shooting, local Jewish service channels a city’s grief and resolve
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Opinion As with Cain and Abel, the blood of our brother Alex Pretti is crying out from the ground
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Fast Forward In 92NY talk, Bret Stephens urges ‘dismantling’ ADL and investing more in Jewish identity
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Opinion Amid standoff with US, would Iran really attack Israel?
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Film & TV In ‘Black and Jewish America,’ Henry Louis Gates Jr explores the history of Black-Jewish partnership and conflict
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Fast Forward Prominent British LGBTQ activist arrested for carrying ‘globalize the intifada’ sign in London
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