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On this podcast, the pulpit looks a lot like the playing field
It’s tough to say if Rabbi Erez Sherman knows more about sports or the Torah. Maybe it’s a tie. “I found that people will either do sports or Judaism and they can’t do them at the same level at the same time,” Sherman 38, said in a phone interview from his home in Los Angeles….
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Did Art Buchwald come up with ‘Coming to America?’
“Coming 2 America,” arriving on our shores Mar. 5, promises the return of fan favorite Saul, the Jewish barber shop patron (played by Eddie Murphy), who has evidently led a biblically long life. The writers on the original film, David Sheffield and Barry W. Blaustein, are also returning. But it remains to be seen if…
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Film & TV Why Heschel’s example was the exception, not the rule
Far too often, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel is used to justify an attitude he never held: complacency. Whenever there is a civil rights anniversary or friction in white Jewish and Black relations, Heschel, a leading rabbinical luminary in the mid-century, is the go-to stand-in for the entire Jewish community. His march through Selma with Martin…
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Previously on ‘Shtisel’: Catch up before Season 3 arrives on Netflix
A lot has happened since the last season of “Shtisel” aired in 2015. Season three — which is already airing in Israel, and will be available on Netflix March 25 — will pick up four years after the last season ended, but it’s hard to remember where we left off. Out here in the real…
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Is Disney’s ‘WandaVision’ a story of intergenerational Holocaust trauma?
Set against a candied nostalgic concoction of the great American sitcom, “WandaVision” on Disney+ is a story of trauma, upheaval and loss. This should come as no surprise considering the origins of the show’s protagonist, the Marvel superhero Wanda Maximoff, also known as the Scarlet Witch. Wanda, along with her twin brother Pietro, survived the…
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New technology can bring Anne Frank to life — but should it?
A yellowed photo of a man in round glasses glances up and smiles sadly at you before turning to stare into the distance. He has mussed hair and a mustache, and is wearing an old fashioned shirt, his expression melancholy. It seems like something out of Harry Potter, or even a horror movie, but it’s…
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WATCH NOW April 15: Meet the Forward 50
This talk will take place on Thursday, April 15 at 2 p.m. ET / 11 a.m. PT Watch the recording here. Every year we publish the Forward 50, a list of remarkable people who have had a particular impact on our communities. This year, we’re asking them to join our Editor-in-Chief, Jodi Rudoren, for “50…
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This frum vet travels the world, treating elephants and jaguars — and still keeps kosher
Dr. Gabby Zonenshine — aka Gabby Wild — is what kids dream of when they say they want to grow up to be veterinarians — she is a wildlife vet, who travels the world to treat animals in the field, including jaguars, toucans and more. Her new book “Wild Vet Adventures,” published by National Geographic…
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On Lou Reed’s birthday, remembering his epic Seder
Editor’s note: Lou Reed would have turned 79 on March 2, 2021. In honor of him and the upcoming holiday we have republished this piece, which first appeared in March of 2013, about the singer-songwriter’s historic “Downtown Seder.” Lou Reed is standing in front of a room full of Jews on Varick Street on a…
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Yes, Dr. Seuss wrote racist books. He still has things to teach us.
Update March 2, 2021: This article has been updated to reflect news that six of Dr. Seuss’ books will no longer be published because they “portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong.” My first introduction to fascism was the tin-pot dictator of Sala-ma-Sond. Yertle the Turtle, the king of a “nice little pond,”…
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The CPAC stage was shaped like the Othala rune…which is what?
At the just-wrapped Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, headlining speaker Donald Trump made an inflammatory speech from a strange, zig-zagging stage. The speech, of course, drew attention, but it featured largely the kind of content we have grown to expect from the former president. The stage itself, however, drew anger for its shape —…
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