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‘Shtisel’ star Sasson Gabay is happy to be back playing a complex haredi Orthodox Jew in ‘Kugel’
The Iraqi-born actor, who plays the Yiddish-speaking Nuhem, has reprised the role for a prequel series titled 'Kugel'
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Film & TV How the Hebrew Bible helped me write He-Man (and a Salvation Army special)
The man who developed 'Masters of the Universe' explains Eternia's undersung Yiddishkeit
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Actor Ben Platt says his Jewish identity is ‘not defined’ by Israel, showing a gap between him and his influential family
Platt’s comments are his first on the topic since early in the Israel-Hamas war
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Film & TV In ‘The Rehearsal’ season 2, is Nathan Fielder serious?
The comedian is out to solve an epidemic of airplane crashes — will the world listen?
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Books How a Jewish boy from Canterbury became a Zulu chieftain
A new book tells the story of Nathaniel Isaacs, a 19th-century British Jew who played a complicated role in the colonization of Africa
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Jews thought Trump wanted to fight antisemitism. Why did he cut all of their grants?
When DOGE routed the National Endowment for the Humanities, hundreds of grants for Holocaust history and Yiddish culture were terminated
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At a seder by and for trans Jews, guests define liberation for themselves
Liberation Now: A Trans+ Seder is a first of its kind event that aims to elevate transgender, nonbinary and gender nonconforming Jews
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ICE wants to treat deportations like a business – history warns us against that
Jewish social theorist Zygmunt Bauman wrote about how rationalization can dehumanize a society’s citizen
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Books What was the Jewish record on slavery? It’s (very) complicated.
Richard Kreitner's 'Fear No Pharaoh" unpacks the myths surrounding Jews and slavery in and around the Civil War and its aftermath
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Theater How Anne Frank inspired a musical about Mexican-American immigrants
‘Real Women Have Curves’ mirrors the histories of both Mexican and Jewish women, playwright Josefina López says.
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Nazis are praising Hitler’s art prowess. But was he really any good?
The not-very-surprising answer is: no. But why?
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