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Film & TV
In a Trumpian Hollywood, men honored for playing tortured geniuses, women for playing sex workers
The stars of 'Oppenheimer,' 'The Brutalist,' 'Anora' and 'Poor Things' deserve their accolades, but there's a disturbing pattern here
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BINTEL BRIEF She’s married to a man but attracted to women. Now what?
Bintel says she’s not alone — and there are Jewish ways to recognize these feelings
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Books In an ‘Oliver Twist’ prequel, Fagin gets a first name — and the spotlight
Allison Epstein’s novel 'Fagin the Thief' fleshes out, but does not sanitize, Dickens’ notoriously antisemitic character
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Film & TV Is ‘Kugel,’ the prequel to ‘Shtisel,’ an antisemite’s dream?
The show follows a grifting Haredi Jew — but maybe that isn't such a bad thing
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Music At a memorabilia auction, Bob Dylan reunites with another noteworthy Bob — and the unsung women behind their careers
Terri Thal and Paula Batson were pivotal figures in the lives of Bob Dylan and Bob Neuwirth
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In new Passover children’s books include a mystery, Obama’s White House seder and a graphic novel from writer Dara Horn
The springtime holiday inspires stories of family gatherings, from Mt. Everest to an Israeli roadside
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Film & TV ‘No Other Land’ just won an Oscar — how can American audiences see it?
For those hoping to see the Academy Award-winning documentary, viewing options are few and far between
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Film & TV In a transcendent new TV series, a memorable group of misfits struggles on the margins of Tel Aviv
'Just for Today,' made by a co-creator of 'In Treatment,' is set at an Israeli Halfway house
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Film & TV Mikey Madison is Jewish — is ‘Anora’?
Brighton Beach has a long Jewish history, but Sean Baker's Oscar-winning film is short on Jewish details
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Books 75 years after the birth of McCarthyism, scoundrel time returns to America
Clay Risen's 'Red Scare' recalls a societal plague that had been quieted but never fully conquered
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Film & TV Oscars 2025: Hollywood crowns a new Jewish queen, and Israeli-Palestinian best documentary winners make waves
Other Jewish wins include 'A Real Pain' and Adrien Brody for 'The Brutalist'
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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
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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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