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Culture
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Why conspiracy theorists keep turning to Jewish mysticism — from early Nazis to modern-day MAGA
A viral clip of a Trump supporter blissfully misunderstanding Jewish mystic numerology raised old questions about how Kabbalah is understood by the public
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The secret Jewish history of Napoleon Bonaparte
Was Napoleon good for the Jews? One historian says yes
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Art Once buried in Europe, a Hitler puppet stashed in Frank Oz’s Oakland attic tells his family’s Holocaust story
A new exhibit shows several puppets crafted by the legendary puppeteer and director’s parents, who fled Antwerp during WWII
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Film & TV To save Jews and keep the Nazis away, these doctors invented a fake infectious disease
The new documentary “Syndrome K” looks at a great unheralded Holocaust survival story
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The Jewish ‘songs’ of Alain Resnais
A retrospective for the filmmaker’s 100th birthday finds a mixed, but compelling, bag of Jewish content
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This portrait of a 10-year-old killed in Uvalde is helping to heal a broken community
Israeli American artist Anat Ronen's mural is part of a project memorializing the school shooting victims
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Film & TV The newest episode of ‘The Rehearsal’ rehearses centuries of Christian-Jewish tensions
Nathan Fielder tries interfaith co-parenting with a devout Christian, and it goes about as well as you'd expect
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Is it too late now for Justin Bieber to say sorry … for doing a Nazi salute on stage?
The pop icon has some teshuva in his future
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Music How a blind Jewish boy from Baghdad became a great musician
'King of the Qanun': From Iraq to Israel, the life and legacy of Avraham Salman
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Theater Two very Jewish stories, separated by more than 3,000 years
Hal Linden and Bernie Kopell star in Ed. Weinberger's 'Two Jews Talking'
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Michael Twitty’s ‘Koshersoul’ blends history, culture and culinary identity
The master chef and culinary historian's new book looks at food, the Black and Jewish diasporas — and social justice
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Culture Charlie Kirk kept a ‘Jewish Sabbath.’ What did he mean by that?
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In Case You Missed It
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Music Bob Dylan, my mother, and the unknown painter behind ‘Blood on the Tracks’
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Theater How often does Tim Blake Nelson think about ancient Greece?
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Opinion It was the wildest scheme in American Jewish history. 200 years later, should it be remembered as a failure?
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Yiddish World VIDEO: Twelve popular Ashkenazi dishes, made gluten-free
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