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Culture
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‘Mazel tov on assimilating:’ The strange, rich history of Rosh Hashanah advertisements
In the postwar years, as the American Jewish community underwent dramatic changes, Rosh Hashanah greetings became a surprising marketing trend
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High Holiday event honors the early 20th century Black female cantor
Shahanna McKinney-Baldon channels Madame Goldye Steiner
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The secret Jewish history of Bruce Springsteen
A streak of religious rebelliousness, struggle and redemption runs through his songs, making them sound a little, well, Jewish
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Art How come you’ve never heard of these Jewish artists?
This exhibition says it’s partly because they’re women
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Theater Why the inspiring story of a real-life Holocaust hero can’t help us solve modern political problems
The one-man show 'Remember This,' staged by Theater for a New Audience, chronicles the life of Polish resistance fighter Jan Karski
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Art Tour the studio of artist Tobi Kahn
Watch a video of Kahn's work and process and register for an online and in-person discussion
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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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Opinion The Iran war ended terribly for the US, and even worse for Israel
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Film & TV In ‘Disclosure Day,’ Steven Spielberg finds himself at odds with Jewish thought about aliens
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Opinion Cultural boycotts of Israel just reached peak absurdity
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Culture ‘My mayor Muslim, my bagel Jewish’ — the Knicks chant capturing New York’s soul
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