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Music
The most Jewish songs from Drake’s new album
'Honestly, Nevermind,' is a 'Portnoy's Complaint' of a record — with a Jewish wedding video to boot
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5 ways of looking at Sarah Silverman
A series of conversations among a quintet of critics after a field trip to ‘The Bedwetter’
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Theater The incredible life of Alla Nazimova, Jewish superstar of the 1920s, is the focus of a new one-woman play
In “The Garden of Alla,” Romy Nordlinger tells the fascinating and nearly forgotten story of an actor, director, writer and queer icon.
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Film & TV Is ‘Cha Cha Real Smooth’ the first good bar/bat mitzvah movie?
A new dramedy starring Dakota Johnson tells the story of a “motivational dancer” for bar/bat mitzvah parties.
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In a new podcast, blacklisted filmmakers make a movie — and an FBI agent lets them
Jon Hamm plays a G-man spying on the production of 1954’s ‘Salt of the Earth’ in Audible’s ‘The Big Lie’
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Finding out I wasn’t genetically related to my father brought me closer to him
How a surprising discovery on 23andMe led to an even more surprising realization
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A new exhibit shows how Jewish marriage evolved – from 12th-century Egypt to modern-day America
The first show at the JTS library's new gallery has rare ketubot from different centuries and continents
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Learning about antisemitism from the people who fought it
A London exhibit at the Wiener Holocaust Library examines the historical context of the world's oldest hatred
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The ‘wild’ Jewish director who Hollywood left behind
Even though he made only two films, Holocaust survivor Jack Garfein was a legendary figure
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Why we need ‘Gravity Falls’ more than ever
The animated series concluded eight years ago, but for some, it will live on forever — like the Kabbalah
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Admired by Bellow, indebted to Faulkner, a giant of Jewish literature dies at 85
A.B. Yehoshua was as gifted as he was uncompromising and undiplomatic
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Opinion The Iran war ended terribly for the US, and even worse for Israel
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Film & TV In ‘Disclosure Day,’ Steven Spielberg finds himself at odds with Jewish thought about aliens
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Opinion Cultural boycotts of Israel just reached peak absurdity
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News Abdul El-Sayed is courting Jewish voters — without moderating his views on Israel
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Sports This year’s biggest World Cup upset came from its most Jew-ish team
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