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Film & TV
As long as there are movies about Nazis, there will be movies about the art they looted
'Auction,' which concerns the provenance of an Egon Schiele painting, is only the latest film about Nazi-looted art
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How Germany’s Holocaust remembrance culture kicked off a democratic crisis
Germany has made remembering the Holocaust central, but that commitment has been strained by Oct. 7 and the rise of the far-right. What happens if Germany loses its memory?
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How a curator and a rabbi joined forces to keep a piece of Boston’s Jewish history alive
When Chelsea's Orange Street Synagogue shuttered in 1999, the fate of its elegant Torah ark hung in the balance
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Film & TV In HBO’s new Stephen King series, the Holocaust is fuel for jump scares
A prequel to the movie 'It,' the series 'It: Welcome to Derry' uses tales of the Shoah to haunt its Jewish character
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Was the ‘Yiddish Sherlock Holmes’ the first Jewish superhero?
Detective Max Spitzkopf, now in English translation, gave Jews of the 20th century an avenger of their own
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One was born Catholic, another was a West Virginia Protestant — now they’re all making Jewish art
A compelling new exhibit focuses on artists who converted to Judaism
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Film & TV In ‘Coexistence, My Ass!’ the anxiety of an Israeli influencer
Amber Fares' documentary charts the artistic and political evolution of comedian and peace activist Noam Shuster Eliassi
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Looking Forward Why does this Jewish music sound so Christian?
Joe Buchanan sets Jewish prayers and ideas into country ballads — an unusual combo
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Leonard Bernstein wrote a love song to the White House; now it’s an elegy
'Take Care of This House' takes on a new, mournful meaning after the demolition of the East Wing
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Are you a Good Witch or a Bad Witch? Or a Jewitch?
I may not look like a witch, but my son thought otherwise
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Film & TV What the new season of ‘Nobody Wants This’ gets right — and very wrong — about Judaism
The hit rom-com returns, addressing some of the first season's criticisms without taking any of them to heart
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Culture Inside the ancient Christian theology driving modern antisemitism
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News Jews paused Indiana’s abortion ban — by turning a religious freedom law against the evangelical right
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Opinion The moral degradation of Israel’s far right is even worse than you think
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News Mamdani to attend Passover Seder as he navigates ties with Jewish groups amid rising antisemitism
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Culture In 1989, Harold Pinter and Jerry Schatzberg made the perfect Holocaust movie for 2026
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Fast Forward 3 more men arrested in London arson of ambulances owned by Jewish emergency service
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Fast Forward Influencer Myron Gaines performs Nazi salute, denies Holocaust death toll at Ohio University event
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Fast Forward Democrats to weigh resolution condemning AIPAC, fueling concerns about ‘undercurrent of antisemitism’
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