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Art
Will we ever know the impact the Nazi regime had on this groundbreaking female artist?
Surrealist star Meret Oppenheim fell into depression and creative rut for 18 years, during and after the war
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Film & TV How a Black and Jewish punk band defied South African apartheid — and how it came undone
Mirissa Neff’s ‘This Is National Wake’ is a music video history of boundary-pushing musicians
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After Pope Benedict’s death, who will claim his legacy?
Traditionalist Catholics, who reject updates to the Church's doctrine, embraced the conservative former pope
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Why Diane Keaton still matters
Nearly 50 years after ‘Annie Hall,’ the actress remains the epitome of awkward grace and elegant imperfection
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George Santos’ fake ‘Jew-ish’ story is not the most troubling lie he told
In questioning Santos' 'Jew-ishness,' critics are overlooking a much more important story
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Bintel Brief My friends won’t take a COVID-19 test before seeing me. Should I drop them?
Bintel says: Your hurt feelings are valid, but you need to hear their side of the story
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On stage and in the classroom, Mikhl Yashinsky is stoking the flame of the Yiddish revival
The 32-year-old Chelsea resident is a Yiddish actor and playwright when he isn’t teaching the language at YIVO and The Workers Circle
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So, how was Pope Benedict’s record on Jews anyway?
The pontiff said he believed in Jewish and Christian co-existence — but it took quite a while for him to get there
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Music Are Barbra Streisand and Bob Dylan the best singers of all time — or the best Jewish singers?
On Rolling Stone's latest list of 200, a minyan of Jewish vocalists
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How Jews helped inspire J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’
The Catholic author took inspiration from his own World War II-era friendship with the Jewish historian Cecil Roth
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Picking a new rabbi? A new novel about a church shows how
Michelle Huneven’s book set at a California church goes deep into the sausage-making at liberal houses of worship.
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Culture In 1989, Harold Pinter and Jerry Schatzberg made the perfect Holocaust movie for 2026
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Culture 70 years ago, this Jewish choreographer predicted our epidemic of loneliness and isolation
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Opinion Trump is backed into a corner on Iran. Get ready for him to start blaming Jews
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Books A new book explores the vibrancy of pre-war Warsaw
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Opinion Mahmoud Khalil’s anti-Zionist case to Jews shows the case for skepticism
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Opinion Mahmoud Khalil’s reassurances are bad for Jews but even worse for Palestinians
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Film & TV Jonah Hill’s cancel culture dramedy makes an antisemitism exception — all about Kanye
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