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Film & TV
Does a small autonomous city in Morocco hold the key to religious coexistence?
A new film set in Melilla, a Spanish city on the edge of Morocco, features friendship between Jews, Christians and Muslims
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Sleep-away camp nostalgia comes to comics
The graphic novel ‘Camp Pock-a-Wocknee’ recalls one epic Jewish summer
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What David Crosby taught me when he kicked me out of his hotel room
In a brief encounter with the legendary artist, a lesson about journalism and artistry
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Books In new book, Pompeo accuses Netanyahu of spreading false rumor for political gain
In preview of a 2024 GOP primary, Pompeo unleashes on Nikki Haley, downplaying her Israel bona fides
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Why Bob Dylan’s haunting comeback album sounds just as Jewish as it ever did
1997's 'Time Out of Mind,' with its nods to Solomon and Samson gets a redo courtesy of Columbia Records
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When a Holocaust denier is actually living right downstairs
In the thriller 'The Man in the Basement,' antisemitism hits extremely too close to home
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The secret Jewish history of Dolly Parton
The singer and philanthropist boasts an impressive command of the Jewish Bible.
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Bintel Brief My daughter said I’m ‘code-switching.’ Is that such a bad thing?
Bintel helps a dad figure out if he hides Yiddish vocabulary due to internalized antisemitism
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Film & TV In ‘The Devil’s Confession,’ Adolf Eichmann hangs himself with his own words
The documentary delivers previously unheard audio, but can’t work through its own banality
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Documentary explores the ‘Talmudic’ relationship between writer Robert Caro and his famous longtime editor
Lizzie Gottlieb describes “Turn Every Page” as a sort of buddy movie about her father, Bob Gottlieb and the biographer Robert Caro
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An indecent exposure online exposes controversy in the Orthodox world
When an Orthodox woman's Instagram event was crashed by a naked man, some people blamed her
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Fast Forward At this Dallas synagogue, Purim comes with fog machines, zip lines and Broadway flair
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Fast Forward Khamenei long obstructed peace for Israel. But his influence was waning before his assassination.
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Yiddish World Yiddish startup brings together literature, listening parties and language circles in London
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Culture How an Amish Mennonite school in Arkansas went viral with a song by an Orthodox Jew
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