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Film & TV
Is it time for ‘Asterix’ to retire the ‘Roman’ salute?
The Netflix series of ‘The Big Fight’ is delightful satire, but there’s a problem
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Is ‘Andor’ about Jews, Palestinians — or both and/or neither?
The ‘Star Wars’ show is drawing from numerous histories, but which you see in it may depend on your own bias
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The secret Jewish history of Alcatraz
As the Trump administration ponders reopening the notorious island prison, we ponder the Jewish ghosts who haunt it
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For Christian nationalists, Trump’s pope picture isn’t a joke
Some Christian Trump supporters already see him as the God-given leader of the church of the United States
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Books How Jews shaped the Western — and how the Western shaped Jews
In 'Chai Noon,' Jonathan Friedmann explores the Jewish history of Westerns, on and off screen.
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Cardinals are Catholic, not Jewish — so why do they all wear yarmulkes?
The cardinals gathering to elect the next pope are all wearing familiar small hats
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Music Jill Sobule was as much a Jewish icon as a queer one
The late singer-songwriter’s music broached antisemitism, Nazi-fighting and Jesus’ dreidel-spinning
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55 years later, how should we remember the Kent State massacre?
Four students were fatally shot on May 4, 1970 — three of them were Jewish
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Film & TV Netflix’s newest Israeli show has nothing to do with Israel
'Bad Boy' is about juvenile delinquents whose nationality has little to do with their trauma
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10 duets Barbra Streisand and Bob Dylan should have chosen for her upcoming album
Dylan and Streisand are joining forces for 'The Very Thought of You,' but the choices on this playlist might have been better
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Alfred Dreyfus was not the man you think he was — and the history of Jews in France is a little different too
A new exhibit at France's Museum of the Art and History of Judaism debunks some clichés about Dreyfus and Jewish history
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News Who was Horst Wessel, and why are people comparing Charlie Kirk to him?
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Culture Charlie Kirk kept a ‘Jewish Sabbath.’ What did he mean by that?
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Film & TV Robert Redford’s legacy is surprisingly Jewish
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News Was Charlie Kirk a martyr? Here’s why Christians are divided and Jews should care
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Culture This Israeli photographer’s work is all about ‘subverting masculinity’
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Opinion The terrifying Nazi precedent for Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension — and the reasons to stay hopeful
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Fast Forward Freed hostage Edan Alexander says he’s returning to the IDF next month
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