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How a Jewish family saved Thomas Jefferson’s home
'The Levys of Monticello' focuses on a Sephardic clan who, like the country's 3rd president, enslaved people
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Music Guitar hero, defender of Dylan, leftist, Trumpist, a good friend and his own worst enemy — Danny Kalb was one of a kind
At one point, the fleet-fingered musician was touted as leader of the Jewish Beatles. Then, he fell off the map.
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Film & TV Haredi Jews won a legal battle against conversion therapy — a new film shows the fight’s not over
‘Queer and Frum’ explores life after coming out
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Film & TV ‘We enjoy being in shul together’: Tony Kushner talks about his friendship with Steven Spielberg
Why Kushner was the perfect screenwriter for Spielberg's 'Fabelmans'
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Film & TV This might just be the unlikeliest Jewish couple you’ve ever seen in a movie
Harriet Rossetto and Mark Borovitz find happiness in 'The Jewish Jail Lady and the Holy Thief'
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Film & TV Why Stephen Sondheim is in ‘Glass Onion’
The late Broadway icon was also a puzzle fanatic and lover of murder mysteries
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At this deli, the food is as fake as the orgasms — and 7 other lessons from an exhibit about Jewish culinary culture
'I'll Have What She's Having' offers dollops of the foreign and the familiar at the New-York Historical Society
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Who is Kanye West and Donald Trump’s antisemitic new friend, Nick Fuentes?
The leader of the groypers, the 24-year-old is an outspoken white supremacist
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Art In a Jewish artist’s stunning photographs, a Holocaust story with a happy ending
Erwin Blumenfeld excelled in the worlds of fashion and the avant-garde
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The case of the missing keys — a Zabar’s lox counter mystery
How watching a classic film noir led our hero to find an elementary solution to a vexing problem
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Film & TV Jonah Hill loves his therapist so much he made a movie about it
'Stutz' is meant to share therapy with the world. But is that even possible?
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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
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Culture The Muppets are my rabbi, and they should be yours
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Yiddish „מײַן זינגען אויף ייִדיש האָט גאָרנישט צו טאָן מיט נאָסטאַלגיע““My singing in Yiddish has nothing to do with nostalgia“
חוה אַלבערשטיין האָט לעצטנס אַרויסגעלאָזט איר אויטאָביאָגראַפֿיע, וווּ זי באַשרײַבט די ראָלע פֿון ייִדיש אין איר רעפּערטואַר און אין איר לעבן
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Yiddish World A moving but problematic concert for Holocaust Remembrance Day
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Fast Forward HIAS shuts Vienna office that aided generations of refugees after Trump pulls funding
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