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For barbraphiles and Streisand fanatics, a plethora of babtastic barbrabilia
An auction features 100,000 items from what's being billed as the world's largest collection of Barbra Streisand memorabilia
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The Kennedy Center canceled its ‘woke’ programming — so why is this Jewish musical OK?
The Tony Award-winning musical 'Parade,' which tells the story of a Jewish man's lynching, arrives at the Kennedy Center
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Music Donald Trump wants to ‘try and get to heaven’ — just like Bob Dylan
The president seems to think his soul is on the line with a Ukraine-Russia ceasefire
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Books Steeped in the horrors of post-war Hungary, these are not ordinary Holocaust stories
The characters in Gábor Szántó’s work strive to be understood even when understanding seems impossible and dangerous
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Film & TV ‘Bojack Horseman’ creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg on his new, ‘unapologetically Jewish’ family affair
At the heart of Netflix’s ‘Long Story Short’ is what it means to be a Jew
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It’s Jew vs. Jew in the fight over a Brooklyn bike lane
Hasidic Jews have long wanted to get rid of the bike lane; a Jewish family sued to protect them
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Film & TV Who is Marty Reisman, the Jewish ping-pong star who inspired Timothée Chalamet’s new movie?
Marty Reisman was the inspiration for ‘Marty Supreme,’ the new Timothée Chalamet movie about a Jewish ping-pong star
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Is Taylor Swift’s new album about the tortured lives of artists in communist Russia?
Facing reprobation from the leaders of Trump’s America, Swift makes reference to Marc Chagall and an earlier era of artistic suppression
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The podcasters making antisemitism Christian again
‘TheoBros,’ conservative men obsessed with biblical exegesis, are gaining steam online
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Theater When Walt Disney went South of the Border to fight Nazi influence
The new play ‘The Animals Speak’ details Disney’s 1941 visit to Latin America
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Film & TV How a Kentucky-raised comic dodged a beer can and became a Jewish star
Comedian Ariel Elias dished on her new special and how to skip the line at her favorite cooldown spot
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Culture Inside the ancient Christian theology driving modern antisemitism
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News Jews paused Indiana’s abortion ban — by turning a religious freedom law against the evangelical right
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Opinion The moral degradation of Israel’s far right is even worse than you think
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News Mamdani to attend Passover Seder as he navigates ties with Jewish groups amid rising antisemitism
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Culture In 1989, Harold Pinter and Jerry Schatzberg made the perfect Holocaust movie for 2026
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Fast Forward 3 more men arrested in London arson of ambulances owned by Jewish emergency service
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Fast Forward Influencer Myron Gaines performs Nazi salute, denies Holocaust death toll at Ohio University event
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