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Barbra Streisand’s brand-new duet with Bob Dylan is a whole lot different than you might think
Though Dylan and Streisand's voices may seem ill-suited to each other, the two complement each other gorgeously on 'The Very Thought of You'
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Anne Frank didn’t live here — she never had the chance
A full-scale recreation of the 'Secret Annex' opens in New York, a place the Frank family sought vainly to reach
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Theater ‘A Knock on the Roof’ is a tragic, heart-pounding portrait of war in Gaza
A Palestinian woman lives through an IDF bombing in a harrowing new play
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Books Young adult novel about women vampires wins a top prize for Jewish children’s books
“Night Owls” nabs a gold medal at the annual Sydney Taylor awards
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Music ‘A Complete Unknown’ forgot about this legendary Jewish rocker, but history will remember Barry Goldberg
Goldberg overcame an abusive childhood in Chicago to jam with the greats
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Film & TV The ‘When Harry Met Sally’ Super Bowl spot should leave mayo on the (way)side
The condiment has no place at Katz’s — but at least it wasn’t on pastrami
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Film & TV In an unmissable film, a son faces up to his Jewish mother’s mental illness
Julien Carpentier's film 'This Is My Mother' is an intimate portrait of life within a traumatized Jewish family
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Books What we write about when we write about Anne Frank
In the latest entry in the 'Jewish Lives' series, Ruth Franklin explores the 'Many Lives' of the most famous witness to the Holocaust
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He was a Jewish leftist like Sandy Koufax — remembering Howard Zinn
The activist professor and author of 'A People's History' died 15 years ago at the age of 87
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Music Louisville Orchestra remembers its concertmaster with an opera he performed in a Nazi concentration camp
“Der Kaiser von Atlantis” was written in Theresienstadt by the Czech-Jewish composer Viktor Ullman, who was murdered. The teen violinist survived
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For Finland’s tiny Jewish community, a complicated history of fighting for the czar and the Nazis
Jews arrived here in the 19th century to serve in the Russian army — today, a little more than 1,000 remain
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Film & TV In this civil rights protest, Jews both fought and defended segregation
Set at a Maryland amusement park, an unusual story of Black-Jewish allyship.
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Culture Barbra Streisand’s brand-new duet with Bob Dylan is a whole lot different than you might think
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Yiddish דאָקטוירים פֿון אַן אַנדער שניטDoctors of a different sort
די ווילנער דאָקטוירים יעקבֿ וויגאָדסקי און צמח שאַבאַד זענען אויך געווען געזעלשאַפֿטלעכע טוער.
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Yiddish ווידעאָ: ווען ייִדיש האָט געקלונגען אין די גאַסן פֿון מעקסיקע VIDEO: When Yiddish rang throughout the streets of Mexico
יעקבֿ פֿינקלמאַן באַשרײַבט אויך זײַן לאַנגיאָריקן פֿאַך — ווי ער האָט צוגעשטעלט וויסן אין טעלעקאָמוניקאַציע איבער דער וועלט
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Opinion Want to understand what’s wrong with the ‘pro-Palestine’ movement? This Palestinian can help
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Fast Forward Boulder firebombing suspect’s family can be deported, court says
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