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She just wants to be a good person. But she’s overwhelmed by the state of the world
Bintel says you can’t fix this broken world alone, but you can find joy in small things
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Books John Irving always felt like an outsider — is that all he thinks there is to Jewishness?
'Queen Esther,’ the author’s pseudo-sequel to ‘Cider House Rules,’ is a warped reading of the People of the Book
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Musk created Grokipedia to counter bias, but it’s full of antisemitic and racist dog-whistles
A competitor to Wikipedia, Grokipedia has a habit of endorsing Musk's own preferred beliefs
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Film & TV As long as there are movies about Nazis, there will be movies about the art they looted
'Auction,' which concerns the provenance of an Egon Schiele painting, is only the latest film about Nazi-looted art
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How Germany’s Holocaust remembrance culture kicked off a democratic crisis
Germany has made remembering the Holocaust central, but that commitment has been strained by Oct. 7 and the rise of the far-right. What happens if Germany loses its memory?
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How a curator and a rabbi joined forces to keep a piece of Boston’s Jewish history alive
When Chelsea's Orange Street Synagogue shuttered in 1999, the fate of its elegant Torah ark hung in the balance
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Film & TV In HBO’s new Stephen King series, the Holocaust is fuel for jump scares
A prequel to the movie 'It,' the series 'It: Welcome to Derry' uses tales of the Shoah to haunt its Jewish character
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Was the ‘Yiddish Sherlock Holmes’ the first Jewish superhero?
Detective Max Spitzkopf, now in English translation, gave Jews of the 20th century an avenger of their own
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One was born Catholic, another was a West Virginia Protestant — now they’re all making Jewish art
A compelling new exhibit focuses on artists who converted to Judaism
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Film & TV In ‘Coexistence, My Ass!’ the anxiety of an Israeli influencer
Amber Fares' documentary charts the artistic and political evolution of comedian and peace activist Noam Shuster Eliassi
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Looking Forward Why does this Jewish music sound so Christian?
Joe Buchanan sets Jewish prayers and ideas into country ballads — an unusual combo
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Opinion I spoke out against Mamdani. Then he won. Here’s how we walk forward together.
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News Indiana University removed its Jewish studies director. His replacement has ignited a firestorm over Israel.
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Fast Forward Groundbreaking analysis of Hitler’s DNA shows no Jewish ancestry — but finds a genetic disorder
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Culture Is the movie ‘Nuremberg’ about the wrong psychiatrist?
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Fast Forward He was Zohran Mamdani’s Jewish wingman. What’s next for Brad Lander?
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Fast Forward Is dining-hall matzah ‘DEI’? The answer isn’t clear to UVA’s pushed-out ex-president.
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