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Film & TV
In the last months of her life, this Palestinian photojournalist captured resilience in Gaza
‘Put Your Soul On Your Hand and Walk’ documents Fatma Hassona’s fight to hold onto hope
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Film & TV Linda Lavin’s final role is also one of her most Jewish
Lavin, who died last December at 87, plays a grandmother in 'One Big Happy Family'
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Film & TV We lived through Oct. 7. Now we can do it again on TV — but why?
Two new shows recreating survivors' experiences are dropping on the second anniversary of Hamas' attack
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A 91-year-old Jewish comedian walked into a pub — and out with my heart
Antisemitism is on the upswing. D’yan Forest isn’t daunted.
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Music ‘Kavalier & Clay’ could be a Jewish-American ‘Ring Cycle’ — what would Richard Wagner think of it?
The adaptation of Michael Chabon’s novel traces a uniquely American mythology
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Gary Shteyngart reflects on his botched bris in a new short film
The Jewish author opens up about his pain in “The Guy Who Got Cut Wrong,” a 20-minute documentary from The New Yorker
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Music The Newport Folk Festival imagined a more equitable world — can that dream be revived?
Robert Gordon hopes his documentary about Newport will remind artists today about the power of song
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Theater Richard Linklater wants you to remember Lorenz Hart
Ethan Hawke is captivating as the tragic lyricist in ‘Blue Moon’
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Music Is Britney Spears hot for Hasidic beards?
The popstar posted a cryptic Instagram admiring the whiskers of Chabadniks playing chess
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Art In a bibliophile’s paradise, a treasury of Jewish manuscripts recalls a time when books were truly beautiful
At the Grolier Club, 'Jewish Worlds Illuminated' highlights of a vast collection from the Jewish Theological Seminary's library
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Searching for true magic in a broken world, all of us are lost — even Kavalier and Clay
Can an operatic adaptation preserve the wonder of Michael Chabon's beloved novel?
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Books How Saul Rubinek’s best lie helped him get to the truth about his family’s Holocaust history