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Culture
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Why Audrey Gelman’s pastoral fantasy doesn’t make sense for Jews
The Wing founder's new "country store" is inspired by a fictional English village — with its own rabbi
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He wasn’t Jewish, so why does Thornton Wilder seem so rabbinical?
125 years after his birth, the playwright is the subject of renewed attention with a revival of 'The Skin of Our Teeth'
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Film & TV Did he just say ‘shiva?’ ‘Moon Knight’ delivers its most Jewish episode yet
Spoilers ahead for the Disney+ show's fifth episode
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The friend collector, iconoclast, clam lover and golf aficionado I’ll never forget
The Forward's lox columnist fondly remembers his friend, the inimitable Arnold Langer
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How is the new ‘Fantastic Beasts’ movie all about Nazis yet also antisemitic?
Grindelwald is basically Hitler, yet all the Jews are bad guys? Somehow, this is the least of the movie's problems.
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Music This punk rock legend survived the Holocaust — and she’s still singing and fighting
Genya Ravan, who has been making rock 'n' roll history since the 1960's, has no plans to retire
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Art Look closely — Sol LeWitt’s art is a lot more Jewish than you think
A new exhibit of the conceptual artist's work illuminates his religious background (even if it's sometimes hard to see)
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How Ben Foster’s faith and family helped to make him a ‘survivor’
In a new HBO film about boxer Harry Haft, the actor pays homage to his grandmother who escaped pogroms in Romania to come to America
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Film & TV In ‘The Survivor,’ Ben Foster enters the Gray Zone – but doesn’t land a knockout blow
The HBO film tells the true story of boxer Harry Haft
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Film & TV Netflix’s ‘Russian Doll’ features a Hungarian ‘Gold Train’ filled with Nazi loot. What’s the real story?
The Hungarian Gold Train has taken on mythical proportions, but its reality is in some ways as mind-bending as the plot of Natasha Lyonne’s show.
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Film & TV A visionary artist’s life cut short at 26 by the Nazis
A new animated film tells the tragic story of Charlotte Salomon who died at Auschwitz in 1943
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