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Culture
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Ashkenazi Jews, there’s 1,000 years of history you’ve been missing
The missing years include Jewish slavery in Italy
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Great news! The rapture is coming on Rosh Hashanah
Online, many Christians are preparing to be bodily assumed into heaven on the Jewish New Year
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In these stunning psalms, everything is illuminated — including the lives of King David and Thomas More
At the Morgan Library, 'Sing a Song' focuses on the role of psalms in medieval life and literacy
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Sam Sussman fashions a mother-son love story with a side helping of Bob Dylan
The author's novel has a nearly one-to-one relationship to his real life questions about his heritage.
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This Israeli photographer’s work is all about ‘subverting masculinity’
Nir Arieli honed his thinking through photographing soldiers during the Second Lebanon war
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Looking Forward The 10 most Jewish things to happen to me in 10 years at the Forward
Unexpected connections, an unlikely romantic proposition, and a devastating bagel incident
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Film & TV They fled from Gaza to Egypt — will they ever find their way back home?
Like Jewish Zionists, the Palestinians in the documentary ‘Who Is Still Alive' yearn to be in their spiritual homeland.
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A new documentary shows what it looks like when Hasidic education fails
New documentary 'Unorthodox Education' explores what happens after children leave the yeshiva world
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Music How the descendant of a notorious Jewish pirate became a swashbuckling rock ’n’ roll legend
Roxy Music's Phil Manzanera has crossed swords with Bryan Ferry, Brian Eno and Bob Dylan
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Theater An unprecedented, and unfinished, work of Yiddish scholarship is now an opera
‘The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language’ chronicles a quest to save a forgotten world
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Pleading with God, pleading with Social Security
For this author, the High Holiday prayer Hineni has special resonance now
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