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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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Film & TV How an intimate and sensitive film about a hostage family’s grief triumphed in Berlin
In chronicling the story of the Beinin family, 'Holding Liat' grapples with personal and national trauma
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Simply Barbra has been channeling Streisand for over 30 years
Steven Brinberg has performed with the likes of Audra McDonald and Jonathan Groff as his long-time Streisand drag persona.
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King David’s story gets the ‘Game of Thrones’ treatment
Amazon Prime's new series 'The House of David' draws out the palace intrigue of ancient Israel
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How a cross-dressing Gene Hackman heralded a new age of Jewish assimilation in Hollywood
Susan Sontag could have had a field day with Hackman’s campy performance as a straight-laced senator in ‘The Birdcage’
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How Gene Hackman made my dad a better rabbi
The actor, who died at 95, played characters that taught life lessons and sought second chances
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Film & TV Is ‘A Real Pain’ the Jewish Oscar film we’ve been waiting for?
The acclaimed film avoids the tropes and tragedies that have defined other Jewish Academy Award nominees
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At a Dan Friedman exhibition, the bizarre joy of being Dan Friedman
In a Chinatown gallery's vibrant Dan Friedman retrospective, Dan Friedman contemplates the work of Dan Friedman
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Trump’s AI dream for Gaza is the golden calf, Samson and Nimrod rolled into one
The baffling video with gold Trumps and feasting Elon Musks is a meme fit for a biblical king
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Whether fleeing Nazis, Cossacks, wildfires or ICE, we all need a ‘go bag’
Across the years and miles, we carry the weight of the difficult choices that have to be made
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Books In an Israeli boy’s coming of age story — tween angst, family dysfunction, and a bar mitzvah amidst rocket fire
Eli Zuzovsky’s debut novel ‘Mazeltov’ explores the turmoil of adolescence.
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News What We Know About Jeffrey Epstein’s Childhood
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Opinion The ‘Hymietown’ affair degraded Black-Jewish relations. Jesse Jackson wasn’t the real culprit
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Fast Forward Robin Kelly, running for Senate in Illinois, says Israel committed ‘genocide’
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Fast Forward Isaiah Zagar, renowned Jewish mosaic artist who created Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens, dies at 86
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Fast Forward South Africa pulls out of Venice Biennale — because its selected artist wanted to focus on Gaza
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