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Looking Forward
Why you can’t judge a record by its cover — even if it’s full of swastikas
'Hitler's Inferno' is a record of Nazi marching songs with a surprising Jewish history
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Fox just delivered the most unexpectedly Jewish hour on TV
A new episode of ‘The Fixer’ blends turnarounds, Torah, and truffle drizzle — and gets Orthodox life refreshingly right
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Film & TV ‘Fantastic Four: First Steps’ sends The Thing to shul — and gives Jack Kirby credit
The Marvel film embraces Ben Grimm’s Jewish roots and pays moving tribute to the man who drew him
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In just one family, four generations of Jewish doctors
Author and physician Ken Weinberg has inherited a history of compassion that started with his grandfather Misha
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Film & TV Is Lena Dunham’s latest show doing too much — or not enough — with its Jewish characters?
'Too Much,' now on Netflix, plays around with the rom-com formula, but leans into some overdone tropes
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Film & TV In an Orthodox Western, Jewish soul breaks through the tropes
‘Guns and Moses’ misses the mark on plot, but hits a bullseye on Jewish representation
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For 110 years, a proudly Jewish family has been a treasured purveyor of pork
How Teitel Brothers on Arthur Avenue keeps Jewish values and Italian food in the family
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The Melania Trump Opera House won’t change hearts and minds — not even the president’s
A Republican proposal to name the Kennedy Center Opera Center after the first lady misunderstands how art works
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Music Remembering Ozzy Osbourne’s Jewish vow renewal
The Prince of Darkness was reluctant to have a rabbi officiate — until he was offered wine
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Books In a time of xenophobia, displacement and distraction, we need Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ more than ever
Informed by scholarship and family history, Daniel Mendelsohn's translation is both vital and timely
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Why a Gaza doctor’s striking video about starving babies has gone viral
The doctor in the video is gaunt, visibly malnourished himself, yet he only mentions the hunger of the babies in his care
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