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Film & TV
Can ‘September 5,’ a film about Israeli hostages in a time of Israeli hostages, survive the news cycle?
Tim Fehlbaum’s film about the Munich massacre is hard to separate from today’s headlines
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How a son of Holocaust survivors joined a commune and helped to free ‘Hurricane’ Carter
Compassion for the underdog has been a constant theme in the life of Sam Chaiton
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Was a ravishing, fictional heroine inspired by a real-life Jewish philanthropist?
Following in the footsteps of Sir Walter Scott, a novelist seeks the inspiration for Rebecca of Ivanhoe
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Is RFK about to ban goyslop — and what on earth is that?
Online, an antisemitic term for low-quality food has gone mainstream in the wake of RFK's war on Big Food
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A Jewish snowman movie would have made a lot more sense than Netflix’s ‘Hot Frosty’
We have a whole mythology about reanimating natural materials — the golem!
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Books In the shadows of Nazi viciousness, an unlikely story of love and heroism blooms
Adriana Allegri's debut novel 'The Sunflower House' was inspired by a real-life Lebensborn institution
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An Israeli woman in playing Mary in a Netflix movie — and the outcry is getting weird
Debates over whether Israelis or Palestinians are racially closer to Mary feel kind of like eugenics
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Has Mark Zuckerberg become the anti-Elon Musk?
A facepalm-worthy rap cover from Zuck sets him apart from Musk's recent antics
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Why is the latest Jesus movie about, uh, mixed martial arts?
The prince of peace himself is not the only muscular Christian in 'The Carpenter'
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Film & TV John Garfield and Paul Newman could have been contenders in ‘On the Waterfront’
A new book on Elia Kazan’s 1954 classic suggests the film that might have been — without Brando
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Theater They created a musical about the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Today’s activists are listening
"We Live in Cairo," now playing at the New York Theatre Workshop, takes on new resonance in light of pro-Palestinian protests
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Fast Forward A Wider Bridge, a pro-Israel advocate in LGBTQ spaces, is shutting down
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Yiddish פֿאַר וואָס הערט מען ניט וועגן דעם גלעצנדיקן וווּקס פֿון דער ישׂראל־בערזע? Why aren’t we hearing about the dramatic growth of the Israeli stock market?
וואָלט דער אָפּרוף געווען אַנדערש, ווען דער ציל פֿון די טעראָריסטן וואָלט ניט געווען ייִדן, נאָר אַן אַנדער גרופּע?
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