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I have seen the future of America — in a pastrami sandwich in Queens
San Wei, which serves pastrami sandwiches along with churros and biang biang noodles, represents an immigrant's fulfillment of the American dream
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What a lion, a rabbi, and a dog taught me about grief
Americans have long mourned their animals. Judaism doesn’t give us a script — so we write our own
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Music After decades of waiting, we’re finally getting a Bob Dylan-Barbra Streisand duet
The two legends will join in song for Babs’ new album of duets
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Art How a Lower East Side Jew conquered the multiverse
A retrospective of Marvel and DC artist Jack Kirby shows the ripples of his influence
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Film & TV In ‘The Rehearsal,’ Nathan Fielder fights the removal of his Holocaust fashion episode
Challenging German censorship, the auteur hits on a paradox of German memory culture
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In a Haredi Jerusalem neighborhood, doctors’ visits are free, but the wait may cost you
A trip to a 'private doctor' has little in common with a visit to your nearby urgent care center
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Trump wants to honor Hannah Arendt in a ‘Garden of American Heroes.’ Is this a joke?
Arendt wrote incisively about the effects of totalitarian propaganda
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In Germany, a Jewish family is reunited with a treasured family object — but also a sense of exile
For Gaby and Sonya Gropman, a trip to Munich represented a homecoming to a land where there is no longer a home
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Music Even the Holocaust could not silence the music of these composers
The recovered voices movement aims to preserve the work of persecuted artists like Viktor Ullmann and Mieczyslaw Weinberg
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Einstein or Edison? Jordan or LeBron? A rabbi explains why Jews debate who is greatest
Rabbi Zev Eleff’s new book traces our obsession with greatness, and argues the real question isn’t who’s the best — but why we need to know
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Film & TV In ‘Andor’ season 2, a Wannsee Conference reference, and a new sort of space Jew
The new season is not pulling punches with its Nazi analogies
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Did this Jewish literary titan have the right idea about Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling after all?
Legendary critic Harold Bloom found Rowling to be a subpar writer whose work was replete with cliches
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