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Film & TV
When Catherine O’Hara delivered the perfect Purim spiel
The ‘Schitt’s Creek’ actress, who died at 71, once gave a riotous turn as an actress playing a Southern Jewish matriarch
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Film & TV Netflix’s ‘Queen of Chess’ tracks the rise of Judit Polgar — but leaves her Jewishness out of it
The documentary covers the grandmaster’s barrier-breaking career and sidelines a key piece of where she came from
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Theater Could this be the most Jewish musical that never admits its own Jewishness?
A new production of 'Oliver!' featuring Simon Lipkin as Fagin brings back the sounds and rhythms of a Friday night dinner table
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Books 24 visions of Leonard Cohen, no clear picture of who he was
'The World of Leonard Cohen’ compares the mythologies of the musician and poet
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So many Jewish stars in this comedy, so few chances for them to shine
'Fantasy Life,' Matthew Shear's directorial debut, features Amanda Peet, Bob Balaban, Zosia Mamet, Judd Hirsch and more
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Could a video game help combat antisemitism on college campuses?
Julia Sebastien wants her PC game, 'StrangeLand,' to become a sort of guide to Jewish life on campus
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Stories of ghosts, grief and Shabbat gladness win top prizes in Jewish children’s literature
The Association of Jewish Libraries announces its Sydney Taylor Book Awards for 2026
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A new exhibit honors writer Lore Segal, a child survivor and lifelong skeptic of easy truths
'And That’s True Too' traces the New Yorker writer’s arc from Kindertransport to Manhattan, where she dazzled with her novels, short stories and children’s books
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Books For the first time since Hitler, a Hebrew publisher sets up shop in Germany
Altneuland Press aims to assert Hebrew as a global language once more
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How yizkor books bring the sights, sounds, and even smells and tastes of lost Jewish shtetls back to life
After the Holocaust, survivors and emigrés documented the ways of life characteristic of their fallen hometowns
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Film & TV At Sundance, the AIDS crisis through the eyes of a bar mitzvah boy
Israeli director Moshe Rosenthal’s ‘Tell Me Everything’ is a memory piece that may jog your memory of a different film
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