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Film & TV
Val Kilmer was the voice of my generation’s Moses (and God)
The actor, who died Tuesday, played the Hebrew prophet three times
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Books The White House Seder started in a Pennsylvania basement. Its legacy lives on.
A new children’s book tells the story of how three Jewish staffers brought Passover to the White House
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Film & TV In this Jewish family, everybody needs therapy — especially the therapists themselves
The Argentinean series 'Family Therapy' features a pair or married therapists, who face emotional challenges of their own
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Books So much to say about Israeli violence, so little to say about violence against Jews
Pankaj Mishra's 'The World After Gaza: A History' offers a reading of current events that is more political and personal than historical
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Books Why Jews were like everyone else — only more so — during slavery and the Civil War
Richard Kreitner’s ‘Fear No Pharoah’ takes an unflinching look at how Jews reckoned with America’s founding sin
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How two Jewish names — Kohen and Mira — are dividing red and blue states
Two Forward reporters who share those names try to make sense of the trend
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BINTEL BRIEF I’m scared about antisemitism, but my friends just want to talk about the war
Bintel advises a student who is struggling to discuss her fears with friends who keep bringing the conversation back to politics
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Would the Talmud have told Jeffrey Goldberg to stay in the Signal chat?
If a journalist is added to a group chat discussing matters of national security, should they stay?
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What was Barbra Streisand’s autobiography doing in ‘The White Lotus’?
Babs' 992-page memoir speaks volumes about the character reading it.
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A truck of kosher knishes and matzo ball soup rolls into New York
Hot dogs, babka and egg rolls are all made hot-to-go in the Manischewitz Deli on Wheels
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Music How Janis Ian’s Jewish heritage inspired some of her greatest hits
A new documentary on the singer's life shows the relationship between her faith, her activism, and her songwriting.
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Culture ‘The Pitt’ tackled the trauma of the Tree of Life attack. Here’s how survivors of the synagogue shooting reacted to the episode.
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Antisemitism Decoded How an ‘all-American boy’ became a Mississippi synagogue arson suspect
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News Why Josh Shapiro’s memoir could complicate a presidential run
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Culture The mysterious case of Barbra Streisand and the missing half-pound of Zabar’s sturgeon
In Case You Missed It
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Yiddish הונדערט צוואָנציק יאָר זינט דער גרינדונג פֿון „אַ בינטל בריוו“120th anniversary of the Forverts advice column “Bintel Brief”
לייענט אַ בריוו פֿון 1949 פֿון אַ לייענער וועמעס זון האָט חתונה געהאַט מיט אַ קריסטלעכער פֿרוי
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Culture What will become of the Dutch farm school that saved my father from the Nazis?
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Opinion I’m a Zionist. I support Palestinian rights. My campus has no space for people who believe in peace
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Opinion Long before Trump’s second-hand Nobel, a laureate sought to curry favor with Nazis by regifting a prize
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