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The 12 greatest Jewish feats in baseball playoff history
Ah, October — when Jewish holidays, fall colors, Halloween and the baseball postseason combine to make for a particularly festive time of the year. Of course, when we think of Jewish baseball heroics in October, we immediately (and understandably) think of Sandy Koufax. But while the “Left Arm of God” certainly ranks high on any…
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A tale told by a Coen brother — full of sound and fury, signifying what all the other Coen Brothers movies have signified
Like a Technicolor noir or a Seth Rogen drama, a Coen brothers movie based on someone else’s writing is a rare and risky proposition. By my count, only one fully successful example exists: “No Country for Old Men,” adapted from Cormac McCarthy’s novel. Then there are the four others that nobody seems too eager to…
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Dr. Seuss + Ray Bradbury + Jewish kung-fu + Nazi satire = the mixed-up files of Israeli sci-fi writer Lavie Tidhar
Perhaps you know his novel where Hitler works as a private detective in London (“A Man Lies Dreaming”). Or maybe the one in which the Tel Aviv bus station is now the world’s premier spaceport (“Central Station”). Or you might have heard the one about how the Jewish state was actually established in East Africa…
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No, Senator Blumenthal, the problem is much bigger than finstas
“Will you commit to ending finsta?” Senator Richard Blumenthal asked Facebook’s Head of Global Safety, Antigone Davis, at Thursday’s hearing on the risks Instagram poses to teenagers. Finsta, short for “fake Instagram” is slang for a category of private Instagram accounts users turn to for a variety of purposes — evading parental oversight, posting stupid…
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The AIDS crisis strained his relationship with Judaism. Now, it’s integral to his art — and activism.
In 1993, artist and activist Gregg Bordowitz premiered his film “Fast Trip, Long Drop,” a not-quite documentary that made for a biting critique of media coverage of the AIDS crisis. The film, in which Bordowitz plays a defiant talk show guest named Alter Allesman — Yiddish for “old everyman” — was shown widely at LGBTQ…
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For the saga of Britney Spears, a dramatic Biblical precedent (and not necessarily in a good way)
Britney Spears’s father controlled her life for over a decade under a restrictive conservatorship that allowed him to, among many things, dictate her right to get married and have children and gave him control over the millions of dollars she made as a pop star. On Wednesday, shortly after the pop star was granted the…
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How 770 Eastern Parkway became the world’s most-recognizable Jewish building
Three dozen replicas of the building are located around the world
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Jon Stewart’s new show is not very funny — it is a mitzvah
The title of Jon Stewart’s new show might have had a double-meaning for almost anyone else. “The Problem with Jon Stewart” sounds like the beginning of a rant by your conservative uncle, or maybe a gripe from a pedantic comedy critic. In its current usage, there is little publicly problematic about the diminutive host, beloved…
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Books After the Tree of Life massacre, an inspiring story of a community coming together
Mark Oppenheimer tells the story of how the Pittsburgh Jewish community rebounded after tragedy
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Coming to Washington, D.C., a new Jewish museum highlighting activism and heritage
The Jewish museum will be the first in the nation's capital
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The secret Jewish history of The Sopranos
The landmark TV series “The Sopranos,” whose six-season run came to an end in 2007, is getting a brief resurrection with “The Many Saints of Newark,” a prequel that begins airing in theaters and on HBO Max this Friday, Oct. 1. While the original series played out over the course of 86 hourlong episodes, “The…
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