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Culture
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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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What happens if a Black woman plays Anne Frank?
In a new short film, a white Jew and a Black gentile go head-to-head for the role of the Jewish teenager, opening questions of race and casting.
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Bintel Brief I’m fed up with the wedding-and-baby-etiquette industrial complex. Can I opt out?
Bintel advises a writer who no longer wishes to participate in the compulsory gift-giving world of the mid-30s millennial.
The Latest
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How to get closer to Lou Reed than you ever could in real life
‘Caught Between the Twisted Stars’ features artifacts from every phase of the artist’s career
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Music Israeli singer Bat Ella to bring her Hebrew versions of Debbie Friedman’s songs to NYC
To mark the 11th anniversary of the American singer-songwriter’s death, the Israeli musician will perform her versions of Friedman’s music at Park Avenue Synagogue.
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Film & TV A lesbian Orthodox horror movie and other Jewish highlights of the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival
A Leonard Cohen documentary, an Israeli comedy and a chat between Jewish comedy writers are among the festival’s offerings.
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Books A new book explains Pope Pius XII’s silence during the Shoah — but does not excuse it
Using newly-opened Vatican archives, David Kertzer discovered the pope’s secret meetings with Nazis and refusal to confirm the mass murder of Jews to the Allies
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The secret Jewish history of Prince
Fun fact: Half of the band on the artist's legendary 'Purple Rain' album were Jewish
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Was Judy Garland too Jewish for show business?
Though she was born Episcopalian, the singer's associations with Jewish artists and collaborators is the stuff of legend
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How an extremist Jewish politician has become the ‘auteur’ of his own demise
The fate of Éric Zemmour has surprising parallels to the films of the French New Wave
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George Carlin’s ‘Class Clown’ is 50 years old — does it still hold up?
A new Judd Apatow-directed documentary on HBO leads our critic to revisit an album he loved in sixth grade
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Opinion The Iran war ended terribly for the US, and even worse for Israel
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News Abdul El-Sayed is courting Jewish voters — without moderating his views on Israel
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