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To play in the orchestra in Auschwitz was a gruesome affair, but it was better than the alternative
Anne Sebba traces the grim history of 'The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz'
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Charlie Kirk kept a ‘Jewish Sabbath.’ What did he mean by that?
The conservative influencer was due to publish a book on a tech-free Shabbat this December
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This Jewish comedy was the summer’s sleeper hit — and you’ve probably never heard of it
'Bad Shabbos' did not get a big theatrical release, but instead was distributed through small theaters and synagogues
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Film & TV Forty years later, we need ‘The Golden Girls’ now more than ever
The hit show's Jewish soul gave humor and heart to issues other shows refused to touch
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Spirituality or intellectualism? An age-old High Holiday debate
Jewish history has always carried a dichotomy between seeking inspiration and pursuing Torah learning
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Books How Carole King moved the earth
Author Jane Eisner on her new book about the singer-songwriter’s endurance
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How Mark Volman and The Turtles shaped the music industry
Volman, who died last week, was often taken less seriously by critics than he was by his peers
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Sam Sussman’s novel is about his Jewish mom and the teasing possibility that Bob Dylan is his dad
In “Boy from the North Country,” a writer turns a real-life mystery into an exploration of parenthood and inheritances
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Books Kafka and Chicago taught him to love literature, Rodney Dangerfield taught him how to live it
With 'Kaplan's Plot,' essayist and journalist Jason Diamond announces his arrival as a full-fledged novelist
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Film & TV ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’ shows the impossibility of providing aid in Gaza. But will it lead to real change?
The film’s second-place win at the Venice Film Festival drew accusations of performative activism
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25 years ago, he wrote the book on ‘Jew vs. Jew.’ Now he is seeing new and deeper divisions.
The title of a journalist’s 2000 book became a catchphrase for intramural clashes that have only gotten worse since.
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Opinion New York’s Israel Day parade was a shanda — but not because of Mamdani
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Books In ‘Something We Said,’ Richard Pryor’s daughter finds words to discuss the unspeakable
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Opinion It’s time for Jews who love Israel to give up on Zionism
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Opinion Israeli and diaspora Jews live in different realities. The Israel Day parade proved it
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Culture ‘My mayor Muslim, my bagel Jewish’ — the Knicks chant capturing New York’s soul
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News West Point graduated more Jewish cadets this year than ever before, Jewish leader says
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Books The visionary Jewish poet who survived the Holocaust but not its aftermath
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Theater ‘The Naked Woman’ asks — what would Jewish Chekhov look like?