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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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Film & TV Why a Jewish sensibility was crucial to telling the story of a hate-filled extremist’s astounding change of heart
In Joshua Seftel's documentary "Stranger at the Gate," a would-be mosque bomber comes to embrace Islam
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Film & TV If the U.S. had acted, Anne Frank might still be alive — Ken Burns on the Holocaust
The legendary documentarian discusses his latest film, 'The U.S. and the Holocaust'
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Theater On Broadway, a Jewish actress takes on the role of a lifetime in Tom Stoppard’s play of a lifetime
'Leopoldstadt' features a cast of 38, including musical star Caissie Levy
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Film & TV The 2022 Emmys gave me sloppy, summer camp staff party vibes
With a DJ, a host, an announcer and mid-show commercials there was too much business
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I was a secular English teacher in an Orthodox school
Teaching Arthur Miller and Sherman Alexie to a group of yeshiva bokherim made for more than a few challenges
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How late is too late to atone — a requiem for my mother-in-law
An excerpt from Letty Cottin Pogrebin's 'Shanda'
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Books ‘Shabbat Shalom and Sayonara’: Loyalists tried to oust Kushner via Shabbat meeting with Trump
Former White House advisor Peter Navarro details in new book an effort to replace Jared Kushner with Steve Bannon as head of the 2020 campaign amid dismal polling
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Film & TV Who is Sabra, Marvel’s Israeli superhero?
Shira Haas will star as MCU's Israeli answer to Captain America – people have opinions
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News Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s selection as JTS commencement speaker roils graduating class
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News Analysis: As Democrats unite behind Platner, Schumer’s future as leader faces tests
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Opinion I’m an Orthodox student in NYC. I’m grateful Mamdani vetoed the school buffer bill
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News Protesters picket Manhattan synagogue over Israel real estate sale, testing Mamdani and new law
In Case You Missed It
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Yiddish װערטער װאָס ראַטעװען: ירמיהו אַהרן טאַובס נײַ ביכל לידערWords of rescue: Yermiyahu Ahron Taub’s new book of poetry
באַזונדערש רירנדיק דאָ זײַנען די בילדער פֿון משפּחה־רײַבונגען, פֿון באַגעגענישן װאָס ברענגען נישט צו קײן עמאָציאָנעלע פֿאַרשטענדיקונגען.
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Fast Forward Israel, US condemn Belgium over planned prosecutions tied to Jewish circumcisions
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Fast Forward Rutgers disinvites commencement speaker over tweet claiming Israelis ‘train dogs to sexually assault prisoners’
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Fast Forward Brussels cathedral installs plaques apologizing for medieval antisemitic persecution depicted in stained glass