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Culture
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So, how did Jews fare under Mikhail Gorbachev anyway?
Despite perestroika and glasnost, the former Soviet president had a mixed record concerning the Jewish people
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Ken Kalfus’ new novel will keep you up at night
In '2 A.M. in Little America,' the author imagines the nation thrown into chaos by civil war
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After Hurricane Katrina, a chaotic hospital evacuation led to 45 deaths. Who’s to blame?
'Five Days at Memorial,' a grueling new series from Apple TV+, explores grim choices at a waterlogged hospital.
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Film & TV 7 great new films from Israel coming soon to a (big or small) screen near you
Documentaries and social dramas were among the highlights at this year’s Jerusalem Film Festival
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Film & TV ‘The Patient’ is one of the most Jewish shows on television — should it have been more so?
In the FX limited series, Steve Carell says kaddish as a Jewish therapist held hostage
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An Ashkenazi Jew, a New Orleans native living in Harlem — and the beginning of a beautiful collaboration
Alyson Richman and Shaunna J. Edwards have joined forces to create 'The Thread Collectors'
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How a terrific collection of stories managed to escape Lithuania and survive
Chana Blankshteyn's work improbably emerges in a glorious new translation
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Art New York state wants museums to label their Nazi looted art. Will anything change?
The new law aims to educate museum-goers about the history behind certain artwork. But it doesn't account for the labyrinthine world of restitution.
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Books The Holocaust bus tour that was truly a trip to hell (snack bar included)
When Jerry Stahl’s life felt like it was collapsing, a visit to the Nazis’ most infamous concentration camps helped him find clarity
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Music A lost Yiddish opera complete, and in performance, at last
How a composer, librettist and historian filled in the blanks on the missing masterpiece 'Bas Sheve'
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Music Meet the musicians turning old Yiddish poems into 21st-century songs
Two new albums reimagine a centuries-old tradition of adapting poetry to music
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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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Fast Forward Georgia’s Jewish senator called his newly minted GOP opponent an antisemite. Why?
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Fast Forward Alex Bores’ supporters disagree on Israel. They agree on him.
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Fast Forward Organizers of London Israeli real estate fair apologize after West Bank properties surface despite denials
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Fast Forward Far-right YouTuber raises nearly $20K for Cornell student who said he was ‘not interested in working for a jew’