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Culture
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They were a kosher bakery success story — 80 years later, people are still trying to make a buck off their babka
The tale of Schick's Bakery is one of 20th-century ingenuity and 21st-century capitalism
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Film & TV In ‘Midas Man,’ a by-the-numbers tribute to the fifth Beatle
The Brian Epstein flick suffers from biopic malaise
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Theater Can one of our most problematic musicals finally overcome its racist past?
A new version of 'Show Boat' reimagines Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein's Broadway classic
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Film & TV They converted to Judaism in Colombia. Why won’t Israel let them make aliyah?
The documentary 'Torah Tropical' shows the struggle of Latin American converts to be accepted by the broader Jewish community
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Film & TV Alamo Drafthouse employees petition to scrap screenings of 1972 Munich film ‘September 5’
The petition calls the film ‘Zionist propaganda’
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Film & TV For Bob Dylan and Laszlo Toth, Jewish reinvention has its limits
'The Brutalist' and 'A Complete Unknown' show men whose masterpieces can’t escape their past
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Film & TV Are these 22 films about Gaza headed to the Academy Awards?
'From Ground Zero' combines numerous shorts — some documentary, some fiction — to blur the lines between fact and fiction
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Art This pioneering female artist’s Jewish heritage is no longer a secret — but what about the rest of her life?
A documentary promises to tell Tamara de Łempicka’s true story, but doesn't bring out her full personality.
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Music Peter Yarrow sang the soundtrack to my Jewish childhood
He never led with his Jewishness, but consistently invoked the mandate of 'tikkun olam'
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Theater How a special Yiddish word and a phone company inspired Delia Ephron’s new Broadway play
A bashert team, including Daryl Roth and Susan Stroman, helped bring Ephron's memoir 'Left on Tenth' to Broadway
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In Peter Yarrow’s legacy, an uneasy blend of Jewish values and personal transgressions
The folksinging Peter of Peter, Paul and Mary has died at 86
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Jimmy Carter, Bubby and me
What happened when my grandmother took my little sister and me to President Carter's inauguration
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Music 50 years later, Bob Dylan’s ‘Blood on the Tracks’ remains the standard by which all albums are measured
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Fast Forward Elon Musk appears to do Nazi salute at Trump inauguration rally
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Music In lawsuit, Drake accuses Kendrick Lamar of picking on ‘Jewish heritage’
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Opinion Here’s why I’ll gladly give Trump all the credit for the hostage deal
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News How did the ADL conclude that Elon Musk didn’t give a Nazi salute? It isn’t saying.
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Fast Forward Elise Stefanik decries ‘antisemitic rot’ in United Nations, backs Elon Musk at confirmation hearing
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Fast Forward Trump lifts sanctions on West Bank settlers, earning praise from the Israeli right
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Fast Forward Released hostage Emily Damari’s injured hand becomes an instant symbol of Israeli defiance
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