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Film & TV
Over 25,000 Jewish partisans fought back against the Nazis. A new film tells 8 of their stories.
Director Julia Mintz interviewed some of the last surviving partisans for her documentary 'Four Winters'
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The Jewish afterlife: How New York preserves memories across generations
How a great-uncle’s death and an ice cream flavor got me thinking about the phrase ‘may their memory be for a blessing’
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Books An urgent call during Kol Nidre: The time this top prosecutor had to work on Yom Kippur
Geoffrey Berman, the former U.S. Attorney who was fired by Donald Trump, was in synagogue when a prosecutor called to ask whether Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman should be arrested
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Long a friend of the Jews, King Charles is a mensch for all seasons
The English monarch is a noted fan of Jewish culture and has championed many a Jewish cause
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Stepping into the ‘Funny Girl’ spotlight, Lea Michele tries to save the show — and herself
Taking the spotlight after Beanie Feldstein's tumultuous departure, the controversial star has to rehabilitate herself while propping up a flailing production
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Art A new New York law requires museums to label art looted by Nazis — but is it constitutional?
Some legal scholars say the law is an example of ‘compelled speech’ and may violate the First Amendment
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‘He was not even a Jew or a person; he was a force’ — Sid Caesar at 100
Born in Yonkers in 1922, the creator of 'Your Show of Shows' was part pugilist, part comic
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Art How a Holocaust survivor from Slovakia became a modern-day Chagall
93-year-old Tibor Spitz found a second (or maybe a third) life as an artist
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Film & TV The greatest Jewish Hollywood character you’ve never heard of
How a cigar-chomping producer named Maurice Duke became king of B (or maybe C) movies
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In Dachau, Bavaria and Berlin, a Jewish prayer and declaration resonate
Traveling through Germany, a young Jew witnesses close up what she had only known from afar
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Film & TV How Harry Styles and Chris Pine became the spitting image of a ‘Seinfeld’ episode
The moment at Venice has been likened to the Zapruder film and Keith Hernandez's 'magic loogie'
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Culture Charlie Kirk kept a ‘Jewish Sabbath.’ What did he mean by that?
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Antisemitism Decoded Israel is being blamed for Charlie Kirk’s death. Here’s what that conspiracy theory says about the far right’s divide
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News Who was Horst Wessel, and why are people comparing Charlie Kirk to him?
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Fast Forward ‘Murdered for speaking truth’: Netanyahu and US Jewish leaders mourn Charlie Kirk
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