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Culture
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Kate Bush’s 9 most Jewish songs
The artist’s late-career resurgence courtesy of ‘Stranger Things’ prompts us to investigate her Jewish song catalog
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Music Brooklyn musician Laura Elkeslassy creates a modern album inspired by forgotten Moroccan Jewish history
The French Jewish singer, now based in Park Slope, will sing from her new album, “Ya Ghorbati: Divas in Exile,” on Wednesday, June 15.
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Film & TV The SpongeBob SquarePants theme song is now in Yiddish
A YIVO scholar translates a popular sea shanty about ‘yam-narishkaytn.’
The Latest
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A fierce, uncompromisingly radical Jewish feminist finally gets her due
A compelling new documentary revels in the fascinating contradictions of Andrea Dworkin
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Everything I learned about Jewish humor I learned from Mad magazine
For a Catholic kid from a white-bread town, the usual gang of idiots offered an education and a lifeline
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Taking a COVID home test? Get the magnifying glass and pay attention!
What's more complicated than tax returns? Confusing self-test instructions in tiny print on top of anxiety
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Theater Billy Crystal’s fake Yiddish was a Jewish standout at the Tonys — but how should Jews feel about it?
The shtick was familiar and fun, but did it reduce the mameloshn to a punchline?
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How Gene Wilder became such a unique Jewish comedian
Gene Wilder had an atypical approach to Jewish humor
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The gospel of ‘Kingdom Business’ director Christopher Erskin
Despite his Jewish background, Erskin says he didn't feel at all conflicted about helming a show about the gospel music industry
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A humongous retrospective honors the glorious career of an iconic Jewish photographer
William Klein’s humor and social conscience have informed his work since the 1940s
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‘Stranger Things’ fans deny their tattoos evoke the Holocaust — it’s a growing trend.
Tattooing prisoners did not begin in WWII, but on the cult TV horror show, the parallels with Nazi torture are too obvious to ignore
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