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Fifth graders write — Why is Abraham Cahan, founder of the Forward, worth celebrating?
Students at Guggenheim Elementary honored Cahan for Jewish American Heritage Month
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Film & TV Barbara Walters gets the Barbara Walters treatment in new documentary
'Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything' explores Walters’ personal life as well as her career, highlighting a vulnerable side the public rarely saw
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A new exhibit on Red Scare blacklists presents chilling parallels to our current era
It's hard not to see echoes between ‘Blacklisted: An American Story’ at the New York Historical and Trump's ideological crackdowns
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His parents fled the Nazis in 1937 — now he’s using his chutzpah to fight Donald Trump
Sen. Ron Wyden discusses his Jewish heritage and his fears of history repeating itself
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Film & TV Can ‘Ms.’ magazine catch a new wave of feminism?
A new documentary on the groundbreaking magazine sheds light on its history, and couldn’t be more of the moment.
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On Father’s Day, remembering the daughter I lost twice
I always dreamt that someday we'd reconnect, but it was not to be
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Film & TV Marlee Matlin may not be ‘alone anymore,’ but deaf representation remains sparse in Hollywood
Shoshana Stern’s new documentary goes behind the scenes of Matlin’s life and career.
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10 things we can (probably) expect from ‘Spaceballs 2’
The sequel to Mel Brooks’ ‘Star Wars’ spoof will look like this
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Film & TV An Israeli and an Iranian step onto a judo mat — and make a thriller about a forbidden relationship
Guy Nattiv and Zar Amir Ebrahimi’s ‘Tatami’ is a gripping story that mirrors its own international production
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Travels to ‘the sixth borough’ — a brief history of New York City mayors visiting Israel
NYC mayors have been visiting Israel since 1951. What have they been doing there?
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I ranked the NYC mayoral candidates exclusively based on their bagel orders
Andrew Cuomo’s ‘bacon, cheese and egg’ is just the beginning
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