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Culture
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Books
Cheating partners, antisemitic neighbors, and lost loves populate these Jewish worlds
Jennifer Moses’ new collection of short stories explores troubled relationships through a Jewish lens
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Art A mural dedicated to Holocaust memory — in Babylonian, Yiddish and Chinese
Ella Ponizovsky-Bergelson’s installation comes to Philadelphia
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Film & TV ‘Eleanor the Great’ is a crowd-pleasing comedy with a queasy Holocaust concept
Scarlett Johansson’s debut as a director leverages a unique tragedy for a universal message
The Latest
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Where Eric Adams got his Rosh Hashanah fit
The New York mayor was spotted wearing some fresh Bukharian threads
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Ashkenazi Jews, there’s 1,000 years of history you’ve been missing
The missing years include Jewish slavery in Italy
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Great news! The rapture is coming on Rosh Hashanah
Online, many Christians are preparing to be bodily assumed into heaven on the Jewish New Year
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In these stunning psalms, everything is illuminated — including the lives of King David and Thomas More
At the Morgan Library, 'Sing a Song' focuses on the role of psalms in medieval life and literacy
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Sam Sussman fashions a mother-son love story with a side helping of Bob Dylan
The author's novel has a nearly one-to-one relationship to his real life questions about his heritage.
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This Israeli photographer’s work is all about ‘subverting masculinity’
Nir Arieli honed his thinking through photographing soldiers during the Second Lebanon war
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Looking Forward The 10 most Jewish things to happen to me in 10 years at the Forward
Unexpected connections, an unlikely romantic proposition, and a devastating bagel incident
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Film & TV They fled from Gaza to Egypt — will they ever find their way back home?
Like Jewish Zionists, the Palestinians in the documentary ‘Who Is Still Alive' yearn to be in their spiritual homeland.
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