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Culture
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We asked 8 Black Jews to weigh in on the Kanye West mess
Leaders, former fans ask why similar outrage wasn't expressed over rapper's anti-Black antics
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Art This devastatingly brilliant and unconscionably awful book will delight and appall
Jerry Saltz's hyperbolic 'Art Is Life' is most interesting as a look inside New York City's punditocracy
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He may have been an antisemite, but he knew great Jewish art when he saw it
The exquisite work of Modigliani found an unlikely champion in Dr. Albert C. Barnes
The Latest
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Inside the surprisingly Jewish world of ‘Tár,’ the new movie about classical music that’s garnering awards buzz
Cate Blanchett plays an intense conductor in the psychological drama dripping with Jewish themes
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Bintel Brief Help! I don’t know how to get my slovenly roommates to clean our apartment
It’s a tale as old as Talmud: sharing a house, and fighting over how to keep it clean
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Film & TV The saga of Hollywood’s most terrifying vampire (and his Jewish parents)
1972's 'Blacula' was the brainchild of a couple of Jewish movie buffs from New York City
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This Halloween, antisemitism might just be the scariest look around
Timely and terrible costumes to terrify your Jewish friends and neighbors!
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Books How simply living as a woman can feel like a preexisting condition
Elissa Bassist's illness memoir is enraging, hysterically funny and very, very Jewish
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Music The real Lou Reed was a lot funnier than you’d think
The purportedly cantankerous Jewish rocker wanted to be remembered for his sense of humor
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When is Hanukkah 2022?
Hanukkah’s on the ‘late’ side this year. Find out when the holiday starts — and why the dates seem to move so much from year to year
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Film & TV How the Groucho Marx Halloween mask became ubiquitous
The significance of 'Groucho glasses' goes way beyond their cigar-chomping creator
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