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Culture
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Are Jews who play baseball on the High Holidays really cursed?
We ran the stats to find out whether the 'Koufax Curse' is really a thing
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The Space Force’s official song sounds like something Mel Brooks wrote
You'd be forgiven for thinking the tune sounds a whole lot like 'Jews in Space'
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Film & TV In ‘Blonde,’ Arthur Miller is Marilyn Monroe’s Jewish husband, and we all know what that means (don’t we?)
Andrew Domink’s adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates' novel casts Adrien Brody as a foil to DiMaggio
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Where does the fascist ‘Sieg Heil’ Nazi German salute come from?
Some have traced the German salute origins back to Rome, but the truth is murkier than that
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When Trump supporters gave him the finger, was it really a Nazi salute?
Experts in extremism and Trump aides alike were confused by the gesture, which some think is an endorsement of the QAnon movement
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At the Harvard of China, something brand nu — a class in Yiddish
At Peking University, students from a variety of majors are learning the alef-beys
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Film & TV What did the U.S. know about the Holocaust and when did we know it?
The new Ken Burns documentary offers some disturbing revelations about the darkest moments in 20th century history
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Film & TV Can you tell the entire history of antisemitism in just four episodes?
A new documentary strives to chronicle the story of the oldest hatred from antiquity to the 21st century
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Art The Nazis recorded everything they stole. One artist is mining their archives for something new.
Lisa Oppenheim’s solo exhibition inverts Nazi archival photos to make the absence of stolen objects and stolen lives feel tangible
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How a New Yorker like me came down with a severe case of COVID fatigue fatigue (yes, fatigue fatigue)
Just because we think we're done with COVID doesn't mean it's done with us
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Books Kushner offered to pay to get the Abraham Accords ceremony on White House lawn, a new book reports
The book by veteran political correspondents Peter Baker and Susan Glasser offers behind-the-scenes anecdotes about Kushner, Trump and the Abraham Accords
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