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Film & TV
‘Fiddler on the Roof’ — the movie that mattered so much that they made a movie about it
A new documentary chronicles 'Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen'
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At a pluralistic yeshiva, a debate rages over who is Jewish enough
Matrilineal descent is an unquestioned rule in Judaism. But the Hadar Institute accidentally sparked an angry debate over whether just one parent — whether mother or father — is enough.
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‘What I felt at the time, I still do not understand’: A 17-year-old’s interview with a survivor
94-year-old Theresienstadt survivor Ruth Hass Meissner tells her story to her grand-nephew
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Bintel Brief I think my friend is a Holocaust denier. Do I have to intervene?
"A Bintel Brief" advises a listener distressed by a close friend's comments.
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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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News Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s selection as JTS commencement speaker roils graduating class
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Culture An Israeli genocide scholar looks to Israel’s history to understand ‘what went wrong’
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News Protesters picket Manhattan synagogue over Israel real estate sale, testing Mamdani and new law
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Opinion I’m an Orthodox student in NYC. I’m grateful Mamdani vetoed the school buffer bill
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Holy Ground A Jewish farmer broke ground on a synagogue in an Illinois cornfield. His neighbors showed up to help.
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Film & TV Is this Apple TV thriller hasbara — or societal critique?
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Fast Forward Israeli man indicted in attack on Catholic nun in Jerusalem’s Old City
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Fast Forward Jewish real estate magnate Steven Roth likens Mamdani’s ‘tax the rich’ rhetoric to ‘from the river to the sea’