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We need to talk about New Jersey’s Jewish master of literature. No, not that one
Philip Roth and Judy Blume are both giants of American Jewish literature — so why do we put them in different classes?
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Move over Thomas Edison, this deli savant is the Garden State’s newest inventor
In his Jersey City lab, Jason Stahl and his alter-ego Hank Schwartz whip up mind-blowing variations on Jewish deli standards
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The Nazis didn’t care that Paul Klee wasn’t Jewish
Sketches from the last decade of the lauded artist's life, exhibited for the first time in the US at the Jewish Museum, change how we understand his work
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A brilliant Jewish storyteller may be gone, but her characters are ‘still talking’
Lore Segal's posthumous short story collection once again shows her mastery of the form
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Film & TV Fox’s Bible story miniseries puts women front and center
‘The Faithful: Women of the Bible’ recounts the journeys of the matriarchs
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An astonishing history of wartime Berlin that reads like a thriller
Ian Buruma's 'Stay Alive' is at once panoramic and intimate, dispassionate and deeply moving
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Louis Theroux’s Netflix documentary on the manosphere takes a detour into antisemitism
Extremist beliefs feed into each other, as is obvious in 'Inside the Manosphere'
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This rabbi reshaped and revitalized Judaism in the 20th century — how have we forgotten him?
Mordecai Kaplan's vision of 'maximum Jewishness' may be just what we need in these fraught times
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This initiative is helping Israeli war survivors heal through art — and is making therapy cool
The 8 Project brings survivors to LA and NYC for an unconventional, art-based method for processing trauma
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Film & TV Everything Jewish that happened at the Oscars: A ‘Marty Supreme’ shutout, an onstage ‘free Palestine’ and more
The Forward culture team breaks down everything Jewish in the Academy Awards
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His family was forced to sell their precious Pissarro painting before fleeing Nazi Germany; will he finally see justice?
Lilly Cassirer's last living heir awaits a legal ruling on a Camille Pissarro masterpiece
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