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At the Western Wall, a woman in her underwear protests modesty limits
Requirements for prayer at the Jerusalem holy site have long been contentious
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All the Jew(ish) Super Bowl 2023 ads
Between Ma&Ya's and the Snapchat commercial, it was all a bit much
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Art How this portrait of Marc Chagall’s father finally wound up where it belonged
The 1911 painting was confiscated by the Nazis in 1939
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Twitter re-platformed extremists — and it’s paying off in ad money
Turns out that extremism draws clicks, and clicks mean ad dollars
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Film & TV You want it darker? Marc Maron’s game.
In his HBO special ‘From Bleak to Dark,’ the comic talks grief, Jewishness and the apocalypse
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Film & TV ‘South Park’ delivers a strong satire of Kanye West’s antisemitism
The season 26 premiere pokes fun at Jews controlling Hollywood
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Music The great Burt Bacharach album that nobody’s talking about
Though it stalled on the charts, 'Reach Out' is a sumptuous 11-course aural feast
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Why is Ben Shapiro so worried about Satan in ‘Paradise Lost’?
The conservative talking head went on a lengthy Twitter rant about John Milton's epic poem
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Music Through music, a fervent hope to build bridges of understanding in the Middle East
With the West-Eastern Divan Ensemble, Michael Barenboim is following in his parents' footsteps
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Pop hitmaker Burt Bacharach dies at 94
His songs defined the '60s, and our memory of them
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BINTEL BRIEF How many times do you ask someone out before you give up?
Bintel turns to the holiday known as the Jewish Valentine's Day for guidance
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Culture ‘My mayor Muslim, my bagel Jewish’ — the Knicks chant capturing New York’s soul
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Opinion The Iran war ended terribly for the US, and even worse for Israel
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Opinion Cultural boycotts of Israel just reached peak absurdity
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Film & TV In ‘Disclosure Day,’ Steven Spielberg finds himself at odds with Jewish thought about aliens
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Fast Forward In Britain, a Jewish Culture Month aims to move the conversation beyond Oct. 7
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News This Jewish activist was arrested and deported for her book ‘Lesbian Love.’ 100 years later, will NYC apologize?
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Culture Ever the restless spirit, Tel Aviv-born architect and designer Ron Arad is still reinventing himself and his art
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News New Jewish-Arab political party debuts in Israel, aiming to topple Netanyahu