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Music
Peter Gabriel’s not-so-secret Jewish weapon — and his little side project called King Crimson
When the rocker goes out on tour for the first time in a decade, Tony Levin will be there alongside him
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David Strathairn plays historic Holocaust witness Jan Karski in PBS’s ‘Remember This’
The film is airing as part of the Great Performances series and will be accompanied by a documentary about Karski, a non-Jewish Pole who infiltrated the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942
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A new dance club in Williamsburg is bringing Tel Aviv party culture to Brooklyn
The new Jewish-owned club, inspired by the late-night Tel Aviv scene, has already become a fixture of Brooklyn nightlife
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Film & TV How Spielberg’s Oscar losses paved the way for ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’
‘The Fabelmans’ ditched the genre trappings that the Daniels embraced
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Film & TV Why ‘pi’ is Darren Aronofsky’s best — and most Jewish — film
Now showing in IMAX, the film was inspired by the director’s trip to Israel
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Film & TV How Topol got to be Tevye
The unofficial historian of 'Fiddler on the Roof' remembers Chaim Topol's story of how he became a star
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‘Always making demented performances’: Meet the professional clown with a show about the Holocaust
Alexandra Tatarsky enters the hellscape of the Jewish mind
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Remembering Topol, the people’s Tevye
Chaim Topol, who starred in the film adaptation of Fiddler on the Roof, died Thursday at 87
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Theater ‘A kind of ritual’: Jessica Hecht on hosting a theatrical shiva
Hecht plays Sarah Ruhl in 'Letters from Max,' adapted from the playwright’s letters with Max Ritvo, a student who died at 25
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Books Spurred by religious faith, an angelic evangelist became a savior to Jews
In 'The Watchmaker's Daughter,' the heroic story of Corrie ten Boom
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BINTEL BRIEF I’m annoyed by Passover guests who still want to wear masks at the Seder
Bintel says a COVID kerfuffle is the perfect problem for a holiday about plagues
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Culture ‘My mayor Muslim, my bagel Jewish’ — the Knicks chant capturing New York’s soul
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Opinion The Iran war ended terribly for the US, and even worse for Israel
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Opinion Cultural boycotts of Israel just reached peak absurdity
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Film & TV In ‘Disclosure Day,’ Steven Spielberg finds himself at odds with Jewish thought about aliens
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News This Jewish activist was arrested and deported for her book ‘Lesbian Love.’ 100 years later, will NYC apologize?
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Culture Ever the restless spirit, Tel Aviv-born architect and designer Ron Arad is still reinventing himself and his art
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News New Jewish-Arab political party debuts in Israel, aiming to topple Netanyahu
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Fast Forward Trump says Syria would do a ‘better job’ of fighting Hezbollah than Israel