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Film & TV
Amy Goodman has been a fearless journalist for more than four decades; she says her Jewish roots made her that way
The documentary ‘Steal This Story, Please!’ shows Goodman’s journey to co-founding ‘Democracy Now!’ and her plans to keep fighting censorship
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Film & TV Is ‘Nuremberg’ the Holocaust movie we need right now?
A new film focuses on the relationship between Hermann Goering and his psychiatrist, Douglass Kelley
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How one man’s burial brought Jews and Christians together — and what it still teaches 120 years later
The 1915 service for Harris Cohn revealed something timeless about American religion: that devotion, in any language, can be shared
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Books How the Yonkers-born son of Jewish immigrants became the king of American comedy
In what could be called 'Your Biography of Biographies,' David Margolick chronicles the unlikely stardom of Sid Caesar
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Film & TV ‘Eid,’ the first Israeli feature directed by a Bedouin, is a heartfelt portrait of an artist
Yousef Abo Madegem’s film is an intimate glimpse at an oft-overlooked segment of Israel
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Looking Forward What Hailey Bieber smoothies and instant matzo ball soup reveal about American Jewish taste
If the kosher deli is out, what's taking its place?
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Mamdani’s first statement on antisemitism as mayor-elect got some weird pushback
After someone spraypainted a swastika on a yeshiva, conspiracy theories abounded
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Film & TV On the trail of a priceless dove, a group of Palestinians and Israelis find that peace is for the birds
In 'Bella,' a man must navigate Israel’s borders to get back his father’s prized dove
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Could poetry revive Yitzhak Rabin’s legacy among young American Jews?
Barak Sella hopes his new English translation of 'Class of 95', Israel's first poetry anthology about Rabin's murder, introduces the slain leader to a younger, American crowd
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Did crypto-Jews invent the modern tarot deck?
A new theory argues that persecuted Jews in medieval Europe concealed Judaica in tarot cards
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Mamdani quoted Eugene Debs in his victory speech — there’s a long Jewish history there
The Forward's early decades were devoted to socialism, and specifically support for Debs
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Fast Forward US soldier charged for threatening to ‘kill every single Jew’ inside of a synagogue
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Fast Forward J.D. Salinger asked publishers to remove references to his Jewish heritage, newly surfaced letters reveal
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Sports NBA coach Steve Kerr: ‘Israel sought revenge for Oct. 7 and now 72,000 Palestinians have been killed’
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Books How Saul Rubinek’s best lie helped him get to the truth about his family’s Holocaust history