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After more than 500 days of war, these dancers have been literally and figuratively climbing the walls
It is hard to avoid seeing our broken world in Batsheva Dance Company's enigmatic 'MOMO'
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Theater She was a teenage runaway, German rock star and Berlin leading lady — now she’s playing Leonard Bernstein
Helen Schneider will embody the maestro in the Off-Broadway play ‘Last Call’
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Theater A ‘dreadfully Jewish’ new play tells the story of a Grindr hookup gone awry
'As Time Goes By' explores modern gay male loneliness with humor, but is scant on Jewish themes
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Film & TV In a totally ludicrous hit Netflix show, the trope of the magic Mossad agent returns
Somehow, just when Robert De Niro needs them most, an Israeli spy is waiting in Netflix's 'Zero Day'
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Books Were these the funniest moments in more than 5,000 years of Jewish history?
Just in time for Purim, Rob Kutner girds his loins to deliver an irreverent history of 'The Jews'
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A six-step guide to making mishloach manot that don’t suck
Because the next Red Delicious apple I receive in a Purim basket will turn me into Haman.
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Debating a Jew, Trump supporters endorse America’s ‘European and Christian’ identity
Sam Seder debated Trump supporters over Nazi-adjacent ideology
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Books Two middle-aged women defied the Nazis. One ‘wrote’ a book that betrayed the other.
Matthew Goodman tells the true story of Kate Bonnefous and her Jewish friend Etta Shiber, who rescued Allied soldiers trapped in France under the Nazi occupation
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Why are Jews buried in a plain pine coffin?
A rabbi writes that Judaism sees the simple pine box as the great equalizer
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Music In 1964, when he was just 23, Bob Dylan wrote the prophetic anthem that encapsulates Trump’s America
Decrying a world characterized by materialism, violence and blind conformity, Dylan echoed the warnings of King Solomon
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At a ‘Sinners’ Shabbat’ in Brooklyn, the faithful gather for fire massages and human sushi platters
The Bushwick event is the latest in a trend of swanky and irreverent Shabbat dinners
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Culture Inside the ancient Christian theology driving modern antisemitism
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News Jews paused Indiana’s abortion ban — by turning a religious freedom law against the evangelical right
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Culture In 1989, Harold Pinter and Jerry Schatzberg made the perfect Holocaust movie for 2026
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News Mamdani to attend Passover Seder as he navigates ties with Jewish groups amid rising antisemitism
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Culture 70 years ago, this Jewish choreographer predicted our epidemic of loneliness and isolation
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Culture Gene Shalit, a mensch with a personality as big as his mustache, turns 100
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Looking Forward How a song about the food chain became a Seder mainstay
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Fast Forward Connecticut Catholic school punishes students who targeted ‘Jew Canaan’ rivals on social media
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