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10 duets Barbra Streisand and Bob Dylan should have chosen for her upcoming album
Dylan and Streisand are joining forces for 'The Very Thought of You,' but the choices on this playlist might have been better
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Alfred Dreyfus was not the man you think he was — and the history of Jews in France is a little different too
A new exhibit at France's Museum of the Art and History of Judaism debunks some clichés about Dreyfus and Jewish history
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A subreddit notorious for Holocaust denial is back online — now as a memorial
Redditors brought infamous subreddit r/holocaust back to life as a place for education about the Holocaust
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What a lion, a rabbi, and a dog taught me about grief
Americans have long mourned their animals. Judaism doesn’t give us a script — so we write our own
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Music After decades of waiting, we’re finally getting a Bob Dylan-Barbra Streisand duet
The two legends will join in song for Babs’ new album of duets
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Art How a Lower East Side Jew conquered the multiverse
A retrospective of Marvel and DC artist Jack Kirby shows the ripples of his influence
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Film & TV In ‘The Rehearsal,’ Nathan Fielder fights the removal of his Holocaust fashion episode
Challenging German censorship, the auteur hits on a paradox of German memory culture
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In a Haredi Jerusalem neighborhood, doctors’ visits are free, but the wait may cost you
A trip to a 'private doctor' has little in common with a visit to your nearby urgent care center
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I have seen the future of America — in a pastrami sandwich in Queens
San Wei, which serves pastrami sandwiches along with churros and biang biang noodles, represents an immigrant's fulfillment of the American dream
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Trump wants to honor Hannah Arendt in a ‘Garden of American Heroes.’ Is this a joke?
Arendt wrote incisively about the effects of totalitarian propaganda
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In Germany, a Jewish family is reunited with a treasured family object — but also a sense of exile
For Gaby and Sonya Gropman, a trip to Munich represented a homecoming to a land where there is no longer a home
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Books In ‘Something We Said,’ Richard Pryor’s daughter finds words to discuss the unspeakable
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Culture ‘My mayor Muslim, my bagel Jewish’ — the Knicks chant capturing New York’s soul
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Opinion It’s time for Jews who love Israel to give up on Zionism
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Opinion New York’s Israel Day parade was a shanda — but not because of Mamdani
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Yiddish די „ייִדישיסטישע ישיבֿה“ איז אָפֿן פֿאַר נײַע תּלמידיםThe Yiddishist Yeshiva is open for registration
אין דעם אייגנאַרטיקן לייענקרײַז לייענט מען חומש מיט רש״י אויף לשון־קודש און ייִדיש־טײַטש.
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Fast Forward A century-old Jerusalem photo album sparks search for forgotten images of the Western Wall
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Fast Forward 5th man charged in March arson of London’s Hatzola ambulances
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Culture Israel boycott battle intensifies at Venice Art Biennale, testing tradition of inclusion