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Culture
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Film & TV Can ‘September 5,’ a film about Israeli hostages in a time of Israeli hostages, survive the news cycle?
Tim Fehlbaum’s film about the Munich massacre is hard to separate from today’s headlines
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Why Paul McCartney should be known as ‘the Jewish Beatle’
The secret Jewish history of Paul McCartney
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Theater ‘I haven’t really accepted he’s dead’ — scenes from the Stephen Sondheim estate sale
Bidding on Sweeney, la-la-la. Drinking bellinis, la-la-la. Hi-ho the glamorous life!
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Film & TV Why ‘Hava Nagila’ is TV’s new fight song
‘Knuckles’ and ‘The Boys’ recently used the song in some elaborate fight scenes
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Film & TV The secret Jewish history of Dick Van Dyke
The veteran comic actor's eponymous TV show was the brainchild of Carl Reiner and bears a passing resemblance to 'Seinfeld'
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She longed to be a lover and an outlaw; she became a writer instead
Francine Prose's memoir '1974' is a portrait of a relatively brief encounter and an entire generation
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Theater ‘It’s my family play.’ Tony winner David Adjmi talks ‘Stereophonic’
Adjmi's play, nominated for 13 Tonys, is about a band's tumultuous act of creation
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Etgar Keret: AI thinks I wrote a number of novels that don’t exist. So I tried to
I didn't write 'The Flashlight's Journey,' at least originally. But it's never too late
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‘We’re all scarred in different ways’: The next generation of Holocaust testimony
As survivors die, their descendants are finding new ways to keep their stories alive
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Mexican Jews love their country. But do they love the next president? It’s complicated
Claudia Sheinbaum is Jewish, but her Jewish constituents care about politics, not identity
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The war comes to the Park Slope Food Coop — could it also provide the blueprint for peace?
This isn't the cooperatively-owned grocery's first schism over Israel and BDS
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This Auschwitz book trend has got to stop — the sooner the better
It is time to rise up and say: No more book titles including the words 'of Auschwitz'
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Fast Forward Why neo-Nazis marched in Ohio this weekend, and almost every weekend in the US
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Opinion The group behind Project 2025 has a plan to protect Jews. It will do the opposite.
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Opinion Just about every interpretation of Trump’s narrow election victory is wrong
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News Texas schools want to add Queen Esther to the curriculum. Here’s why Jews (and many Christians) are opposed.
In Case You Missed It
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Fast Forward Chabad rabbi killed in United Arab Emirates; Israel denounces ‘despicable antisemitic act’
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Fast Forward Rep. Ritchie Torres, outspoken pro-Israel advocate, is dropping hints that he could run for NY governor
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Fast Forward Ursula Haverbeck, infamous German Holocaust denier known as ‘Nazi grandma,’ dies at 96
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Fast Forward A Jewish museum in Tulsa held a funeral for remains of Holocaust victims it kept for years
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