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Can a new Israeli Netflix historical drama succeed if it flunks history?
‘The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem’ spans the decades from Ottoman rule to nationhood. Yet somehow, the politics and events of the era are missing from the show.
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Books Joshua Cohen’s satirical novel ‘The Netanyahus’ wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction
Cohen’s book satirizes a real-life visit to America by the future prime minister’s father.
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Why this Jewish playwright wants you to sympathize with the teens of the Third Reich
A new play from Michelle Kholos Brooks follows the German girls forced to taste Hitler's food for poison.
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Music As the new Bob Dylan Center opens in Tulsa, a new pop culture mecca is born
Patti Smith, Mavis Staples and Elvis Costello were in town for the celebration; Dylan himself chose to skip it
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Does pastrami come from New York or Texas?
An exclusive Forward culinary investigation employs archival research to debunk a persistent and vexing rumor about a smoked meat's origin story
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Books A Pulitzer-winning novel drops the Netanyahus in an American college town
Joshua Cohen's 2021 novel won the 2022 Pulitzer for Fiction.
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The Tony 2022 nominees rain on Beanie Feldstein’s parade – but give us a parade of many Jewish faces
Billy Crystal, a Bob Dylan musical and a play about Jewish bankers are among the nominees
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Art In America’s first Palestinian museum, a chance to explore common ground (and mostly avoid politics)
The Palestine Museum US was founded four years ago by businessman Faisal Saleh
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Film & TV How Orna Guralnik went from the Israeli army to ‘Couples Therapy’ stardom
“I’ve become something,” she said. “I don’t know what to call it, but people write to me a lot, from all over the world.”
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The secret Jewish history Of Hans Christian Andersen
The fabled author of fairy tales may have had a philo-Semitic streak.
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How I discovered a connection to my mother that I never expected to find
He knew his mother survived the Vilna Ghetto, but a trip to Belgium taught the author a good deal more
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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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News Abdul El-Sayed is courting Jewish voters — without moderating his views on Israel
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Culture My father was my hero and, when he was dying, I wrote this song for him
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Fast Forward Former antisemitic activist Lucas Gage explains to Jewish podcast why he left the movement