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How MAD magazine, family ghosts and censorship made Art Spiegelman an anti-fascist artist
A new documentary about the ‘Maus’ author reveals his influences, and what keeps him up at night
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Books Despite her multimillion dollar fortune and celebrity pals, Ina Garten is a true balabusta
In Garten's latest memoir, the 'barefoot contessa' is a lot more relatable than you might imagine
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I’m an art historian who researches the Holocaust — here’s why I hated ‘The Brutalist’
Brady Corbet’s lauded film starring Adrien Brody as a Hungarian emigré demonstrates a profound misunderstanding of the Holocaust and architecture
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Man almost swallowed by whale is a lot chiller about it than Jonah was
A humpback whale briefly scooped a kayaker in Chile into its mouth
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Art Vandals destroyed his tribute to Holocaust survivors — and yet this artist persists
AleXsandro Palombo, an Italian muralist, uses his art to educate young people about the Holocaust
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Film & TV Why a 100-year-old film about a ‘City Without Jews’ seems disturbingly prescient today
Hans Karl Breslauer's 1924 film resonates in an environment of rising antisemitism and threatened mass deportations
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Film & TV An Israeli superhero is the least of the problems with ‘Captain America: Brave New World’
Pro-Palestinians picketed the film for its inclusion of Shira Haas’ character. It wasn’t worth the protest
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Film & TV The hero of the Netflix series ‘Mo’ faces struggles that might seem familiar to Sholem Aleichem
In the second and final season of his hit Netflix comedy, Mo Amer takes a bow — and a stand
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Theater In Idina Menzel’s new Broadway musical, a show tune about Tikkun Olam soars high
In 'Redwood,' a headstrong tree-climber uses Jewish wisdom to inspire and console
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Books How a Jewish daughter’s search to find her parents became a book and a play and a movie
Writer and performer Zara Phillips, author of 'Somebody's Daughter,' has turned her question into art
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Books What does it mean that Judaism is a religion of loopholes?
For Elana Stein Hain, practices like the eruv and the selling of chametz can create a new sort of religious consciousness
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