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What I learned about life from preparing the dead
As a convert, I joined a chevra kadisha. It taught me that Jewish rituals aren’t only about death — they’re about how we live, remember, and honor one another
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Film & TV 100 years later, just how Jewish was Peter Sellers?
The great comedian, who would have turned 100 this year, lived at a time when performers were more discreet about their Jewishness
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Film & TV A dizzying Kafka biopic that isn’t really Kafkaesque
Agnieszka Holland’s ‘Franz’ imagines the author as a saint of modernity
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Film & TV How the world transformed Elie Wiesel — and how he transformed the world
'Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire' traces its subject's journey from Holocaust survivor to international hero and human rights leader
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Film & TV This journalist uncovered America’s greatest abuses. Could he do the same today?
A new documentary, 'Cover-Up,’ shares the inside story of Seymour Hersh’s scoops
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Film & TV Seeking gangsters, must speak Yiddish: Bringing the Hasidic underworld to life in ‘Caught Stealing’
Motl Didner coached Liev Schreiber, Vincent D’Onofrio and Carol Kane on their Yiddish scenes
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He escaped the Holocaust and ‘Matzoh Island,’ but America was no promised land
In the graphic memoir 'The Art of Being a Stranger,' Karen Bermann tells the story of her father Fritz, who became a maven of maintenance in New York
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Sports Forget being caught on camera at a Coldplay concert — I was caught on Shabbat at Yankee Stadium
A Jewish baseball fan remembers the game that outed him on national television
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Film & TV ‘Caught Stealing’ gives us tough, Hasidic drug lords — is it good for the Jews?
Darren Aronofsky’s nostalgic crime caper packs heat and Yiddish
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The Borscht Belt was a haven for Jews — and for crossdressers
At Casa Susanna, a resort in the Catskills, guests were able to safely express themselves
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Kinky Friedman has been gone a year, but his family’s summer camp lives on
Tom and Min Friedman's Echo Hill Ranch is enjoying a second life as a camp for the children of Gold Star families
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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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Sports Memes, mashiach and ‘Torah-cyclopedias’ put a Jewish twist on the Knicks’ title hunt
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Opinion What exactly did Israel gain from striking Beirut and provoking Iran?
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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