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I have seen the future of America — in a pastrami sandwich in Queens
San Wei, which serves pastrami sandwiches along with churros and biang biang noodles, represents an immigrant's fulfillment of the American dream
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Film & TV A lesbian Orthodox horror movie and other Jewish highlights of the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival
A Leonard Cohen documentary, an Israeli comedy and a chat between Jewish comedy writers are among the festival’s offerings.
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Books A new book explains Pope Pius XII’s silence during the Shoah — but does not excuse it
Using newly-opened Vatican archives, David Kertzer discovered the pope’s secret meetings with Nazis and refusal to confirm the mass murder of Jews to the Allies
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The secret Jewish history of Prince
Fun fact: Half of the band on the artist's legendary 'Purple Rain' album were Jewish
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Was Judy Garland too Jewish for show business?
Though she was born Episcopalian, the singer's associations with Jewish artists and collaborators is the stuff of legend
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How an extremist Jewish politician has become the ‘auteur’ of his own demise
The fate of Éric Zemmour has surprising parallels to the films of the French New Wave
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George Carlin’s ‘Class Clown’ is 50 years old — does it still hold up?
A new Judd Apatow-directed documentary on HBO leads our critic to revisit an album he loved in sixth grade
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How an elite group of Jewish refugees helped to defeat the Third Reich
X Troop played a crucial role in the D-Day landings and killed, captured and interrogated their way across occupied Europe all the way into the heart of the Third Reich
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Books Before WWII, Jewish mobsters kept Nazis at bay in the US — with their fists
In “Gangsters Vs. Nazis: How Jewish Mobsters Battled Nazis in Wartime America,” Michael Benson chronicles how Jewish leaders worked together with the likes of Meyer Lansky.
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Film & TV British poet Siegfried Sassoon ignored his Jewish heritage. A new biopic does the same.
A conscientious objector to WWI, Sassoon became an activist through his poetry – while living as a closeted gay man.
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‘Farkakte Apartments’: Yiddish word wins sales and TikTok fans for realtor
Stephanie Turk uses comedy, honesty and an icky Yiddish word to successfully market NYC real estate
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She won ‘The Great Australian Bake Off’ — and with all kosher bakes
The British version of the baking show has grown famous for flubbing everything Jewish. But in Australia, it’s a different story.
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