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Culture
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Does pastrami come from New York or Texas?
An exclusive Forward culinary investigation employs archival research to debunk a persistent and vexing rumor about a smoked meat's origin story
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Books A Pulitzer-winning novel drops the Netanyahus in an American college town
Joshua Cohen's 2021 novel won the 2022 Pulitzer for Fiction.
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The Tony 2022 nominees rain on Beanie Feldstein’s parade – but give us a parade of many Jewish faces
Billy Crystal, a Bob Dylan musical and a play about Jewish bankers are among the nominees
The Latest
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Art In America’s first Palestinian museum, a chance to explore common ground (and mostly avoid politics)
The Palestine Museum US was founded four years ago by businessman Faisal Saleh
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Film & TV How Orna Guralnik went from the Israeli army to ‘Couples Therapy’ stardom
“I’ve become something,” she said. “I don’t know what to call it, but people write to me a lot, from all over the world.”
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The secret Jewish history Of Hans Christian Andersen
The fabled author of fairy tales may have had a philo-Semitic streak.
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How I discovered a connection to my mother that I never expected to find
He knew his mother survived the Vilna Ghetto, but a trip to Belgium taught the author a good deal more
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Maurice Sendak thought this work was his masterpiece — not ‘Wild Things’
"Outside Over There" was key to Sendak's "being and the arc of his work and life.”
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Spanish Jews take the spotlight in ‘Heirs to the Land,’ a Netflix series about the Inquisition
Producer Jordi Frades said he hoped to do for the Inquisition in popular culture what "Schindler's List" did for the Holocaust.
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‘A David and Goliath story’: The Jewish history of Cinco de Mayo
The 1862 Battle of Puebla paved the way for Mexico to become a haven for Jews fleeing persecution.
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Film & TV Jennifer Grey knows you care about her nose
In the 'Dirty Dancing' star's memoir, she dishes on her fateful surgery and her Jewish identity
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