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Books
New book details the long and winding road trod by the Beatles and Bob Dylan
'Where the Music Had to Go: How Bob Dylan and the Beatles Changed Each Other – and the World' examines the overlap between genre-defining musicians
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Film & TV A new documentary challenges stereotypes about Orthodox Jewish women — and their wigs
'Sheitel: Beauty in the Hidden,' dives deep into Jewish women's experience of covering their hair
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Books How Saul Rubinek’s best lie helped him get to the truth about his family’s Holocaust history
In “All In The Telling,” Rubinek’s partly-fictionalized memoir, he convinces his parents he’s writing a Holocaust story to solve a family fight.
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They escaped the Nazi genocide, but these ‘Wanderers’ still went through hell
In Daniela Gerson's latest book, a tale of survival and subterfuge that echoes the stories of today's immigrants
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Theater They told Willy Loman he was everything; ’twas a great American lie
In a new Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's 'Death of a Salesman,' a 'King Lear' for our time
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Cole Allen’s manifesto cites the Bible — so why did Trump say he ‘hates Christians?’
The suspect in the White House Correspondents' dinner attack thanked his church
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An Indiana town had no Jewish cemetery. When its mayor died, it built one
Aurora had no Jewish cemetery in 1871. After Marcus Levy’s death, residents refused to send him away — and set out to consecrate ground and raise a monument
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Apple TV’s ‘Your Friends & Neighbors’ just gave us a stunningly authentic Jewish episode
At a time when Jews are nervous about their public perception, seeing shmura matzah on TV was a balm, writes a rabbi and cultural commentator
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I come from a long line of Jewish Bundists. Now, Molly Crabapple is part of our family.
For some, Crabapple's 'Here Where We Live Is Our Country' is history; for this writer and her grandparents, it's an heirloom.
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Sports A Koufax for these times
The Portland Trail Blazers' Deni Avdija has become a lightning rod as an Israeli NBA star
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A New York Jewish childhood at the Dalton School where privilege met progressivism
Holly Cowan Shulman, who graduated from Dalton in 1961, remembers a fortunate life on the city's East Side
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Opinion Outrage over Nicholas Kristof’s op-ed on sexual assault of Palestinians is missing the point
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Opinion I discovered anti-Zionism at the University of Michigan. I’m glad it lives on there
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News They texted about Torah and mitzvahs. Feds say they were insider trading
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Opinion An alarming new battleground in campus fights over Israel
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Opinion Piers Morgan is what’s wrong with media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — and I can’t stop watching him
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Culture The Jewish secret to affordable eyewear that isn’t so secret anymore
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Opinion The profound internal contradiction that could spell doom for Hillel
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Looking Forward When the 92nd Street Y was a hub for Black innovation in dance