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Culture
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Gary Shteyngart reflects on his botched bris in a new short film
The Jewish author opens up about his pain in “The Guy Who Got Cut Wrong,” a 20-minute documentary from The New Yorker
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Music The Newport Folk Festival imagined a more equitable world — can that dream be revived?
Robert Gordon hopes his documentary about Newport will remind artists today about the power of song
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Theater Richard Linklater wants you to remember Lorenz Hart
Ethan Hawke is captivating as the tragic lyricist in ‘Blue Moon’
The Latest
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Music Is Britney Spears hot for Hasidic beards?
The popstar posted a cryptic Instagram admiring the whiskers of Chabadniks playing chess
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Art In a bibliophile’s paradise, a treasury of Jewish manuscripts recalls a time when books were truly beautiful
At the Grolier Club, 'Jewish Worlds Illuminated' highlights of a vast collection from the Jewish Theological Seminary's library
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Searching for true magic in a broken world, all of us are lost — even Kavalier and Clay
Can an operatic adaptation preserve the wonder of Michael Chabon's beloved novel?
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In Dan Brown’s chaotic tale of a rampaging Golem, a case of missing Judaism
'The Secret of Secrets' puts the famous defender of Prague's Jewish ghetto centerstage
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Books Cheating partners, antisemitic neighbors, and lost loves populate these Jewish worlds
Jennifer Moses’ new collection of short stories explores troubled relationships through a Jewish lens
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Art A mural dedicated to Holocaust memory — in Babylonian, Yiddish and Chinese
Ella Ponizovsky-Bergelson’s installation comes to Philadelphia
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Film & TV ‘Eleanor the Great’ is a crowd-pleasing comedy with a queasy Holocaust concept
Scarlett Johansson’s debut as a director leverages a unique tragedy for a universal message
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Where Eric Adams got his Rosh Hashanah fit
The New York mayor was spotted wearing some fresh Bukharian threads
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News Mamdani to attend Passover Seder as he navigates ties with Jewish groups amid rising antisemitism
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