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What is ‘Zionism without Zion?’ New history asks, but can’t answer
In ‘Melting Point’, Rachel Cockerell provides lots of historical sources, but little insight into what they’re saying
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In the new Fantastic Four trailer, a glimpse of Yancy Street’s Yiddishkeit
Keep your eyes peeled in the new movie for challahs and tikkun olam
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‘Shtisel’ star Sasson Gabay is happy to be back playing a complex haredi Orthodox Jew in ‘Kugel’
The Iraqi-born actor, who plays the Yiddish-speaking Nuhem, has reprised the role for a prequel series titled 'Kugel'
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Film & TV How the Hebrew Bible helped me write He-Man (and a Salvation Army special)
The man who developed 'Masters of the Universe' explains Eternia's undersung Yiddishkeit
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Actor Ben Platt says his Jewish identity is ‘not defined’ by Israel, showing a gap between him and his influential family
Platt’s comments are his first on the topic since early in the Israel-Hamas war
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Film & TV In ‘The Rehearsal’ season 2, is Nathan Fielder serious?
The comedian is out to solve an epidemic of airplane crashes — will the world listen?
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Books How a Jewish boy from Canterbury became a Zulu chieftain
A new book tells the story of Nathaniel Isaacs, a 19th-century British Jew who played a complicated role in the colonization of Africa
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Jews thought Trump wanted to fight antisemitism. Why did he cut all of their grants?
When DOGE routed the National Endowment for the Humanities, hundreds of grants for Holocaust history and Yiddish culture were terminated
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At a seder by and for trans Jews, guests define liberation for themselves
Liberation Now: A Trans+ Seder is a first of its kind event that aims to elevate transgender, nonbinary and gender nonconforming Jews
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ICE wants to treat deportations like a business – history warns us against that
Jewish social theorist Zygmunt Bauman wrote about how rationalization can dehumanize a society’s citizen
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Books What was the Jewish record on slavery? It’s (very) complicated.
Richard Kreitner's 'Fear No Pharaoh" unpacks the myths surrounding Jews and slavery in and around the Civil War and its aftermath
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News Who was Horst Wessel, and why are people comparing Charlie Kirk to him?
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Culture Charlie Kirk kept a ‘Jewish Sabbath.’ What did he mean by that?
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Film & TV Robert Redford’s legacy is surprisingly Jewish
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Antisemitism Decoded Israel is being blamed for Charlie Kirk’s death. Here’s what that conspiracy theory says about the far right’s divide
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Culture This Israeli photographer’s work is all about ‘subverting masculinity’
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Opinion The terrifying Nazi precedent for Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension — and the reasons to stay hopeful
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Fast Forward Freed hostage Edan Alexander says he’s returning to the IDF next month
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Yiddish World How a Yiddish acting troupe fooled the Tsarist government
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