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Culture
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Film & TV Can ‘September 5,’ a film about Israeli hostages in a time of Israeli hostages, survive the news cycle?
Tim Fehlbaum’s film about the Munich massacre is hard to separate from today’s headlines
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A mezuzah in a Harris-Emhoff White House? It might not be the first.
Doug Emhoff said he'd put a mezuzah in the White House. Whether Jewish law requires him to is a matter of dispute.
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Are Jewish horns having a comeback? The history behind the antisemitic stereotype
Recent depictions of pro-Israel politicians and university presidents are on the horns of a new dilemma
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A small town in Spain is finally embracing its Jewish history — but is any of that history true?
In Hervás, a rural hamlet of 4,000, an invented Jewish heritage has become a point of pride and a marketing tool
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One of Bob Dylan’s most Jewish songs is VP candidate Tim Walz’s favorite
'Forever Young' may be read as a parent's blessing to a child, but there's also a deep Jewish story behind it
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Theater The ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ revival has us wondering — where are all the Jewish Shelley Levenes?
Bob Odenkirk is slated to play the Jewish character in David Mamet’s drama on Broadway
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They’re celebrating the Olympics in Paris, but the war in the Middle East feels close at hand
Fear and anxiety seem like constants for Jews in the City of Light
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Film & TV How the Israel-Hamas war could affect ‘The Last of Us’ Season 2
The online backlash against the video game source material and its Israeli-American co-creator, explained
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The Yiddish wisdom of Tim Walz
In declaring 'We'll sleep when we're dead,' VP candidate Walz was invoking a particularly Yiddish philosophy and work ethic
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In ‘The Singer Sisters,’ a Jewish folk music family makes it big from Greenwich Village to Lilith Fair
Sarah Seltzer’s debut novel is full of familial drama, rock music history and lots of Yiddishkeit
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Zealotry is dividing Israel — and a groundbreaking film shows it’s not the first time
'Legend of Destruction' details the Jewish civil war that ultimately led to the destruction of the Temple.
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How it feels to leave Israel when an attack is coming and every airline is canceling flights
On El Al out of Tel Aviv, some passengers aren't planning to get anywhere but out
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Fast Forward Why neo-Nazis marched in Ohio this weekend, and almost every weekend in the US
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Opinion The group behind Project 2025 has a plan to protect Jews. It will do the opposite.
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Opinion Just about every interpretation of Trump’s narrow election victory is wrong
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News Texas schools want to add Queen Esther to the curriculum. Here’s why Jews (and many Christians) are opposed.
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Fast Forward Rep. Ritchie Torres, outspoken pro-Israel advocate, is dropping hints that he could run for NY governor
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Fast Forward Ursula Haverbeck, infamous German Holocaust denier known as ‘Nazi grandma,’ dies at 96
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Fast Forward A Jewish museum in Tulsa held a funeral for remains of Holocaust victims it kept for years
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Sports Texas A&M’s Sam Salz cherishes his first taste of DI college football — and the opportunity to inspire fellow Orthodox Jews
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