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Culture
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Books
Authors protest ‘banned books’ list in Florida that includes Shabbat picture book
‘Chik Chak Shabbat’ is on a list of titles off-limits to Jacksonville area schools
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As Time’s Person of the Year, Zelenskyy joins a short list of Jews, and a longer list of antisemites
The first person given the title was Charles Lindbergh. Stalin and Hitler followed not long after
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Why we should think twice before we call Hitler a ‘demon’
President Biden recently labeled Hitler 'demonic,' but Yiddish linguists say he could have chosen a better word
The Latest
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Hallmark’s latest Hanukkah movie is weirdly good
Except for the fact that it's a Nora Ephron knockoff
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Art This notorious artist fought trauma, antisemitism and his own worst instincts — Lucian Freud at 100
An ex-lover called Sigmund Freud's grandson, who fathered more than a dozen children, 'an evil man'
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The words are full of angst and alienation — so why is this show so joyous?
In 'Love Train,' Emmanuel Gat brings the songs of Tears for Fears to vivid life
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Film & TV Was Josef K. only guilty of the crime of being Jewish?
Sixty years after its premiere, Orson Welles' adaptation of Franz Kafka's 'The Trial' remains cinema's most vivid fever dream
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Art How America’s most Jewish city is also its most Catholic, Protestant and Muslim
In the exhibit City of Faith, different religious groups intersect and interact in New York
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A Jewish guide to Christmas in New York
With the world's largest menorah, a Maccabee Bar and hidden history on the Lower East Side, who needs Rockefeller Center?
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Can we all please shut up about Kanye West now?
We're just giving him more attention now
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4 must-see documentaries to help you understand the process of shiva
Jewish mourning rituals are complex and deeply personal. These films can help you begin to understand them
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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 Chabad ‘let me down,’ suspect said, in hours before allegedly attacking their headquarters
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Film & TV When Catherine O’Hara delivered the perfect Purim spiel
In Case You Missed It
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Fast Forward HIAS shuts Vienna office that aided generations of refugees after Trump pulls funding
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Opinion Trying to influence progressives in New Jersey, AIPAC may actually help one get elected
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Fast Forward Boston-area Jewish day school to close after 25 years, saying its model is ‘no longer sustainable’
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Fast Forward France issues arrest warrants against 2 right-wing French-Israeli activists for ‘complicity in genocide’
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