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Film & TV
Happiness and autonomy prove elusive in a Palestinian director’s moving family drama
Scandar Copti's 'Happy Holidays' focuses on an upper-class family in Haifa
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How Al Jolson helped to remake America
A new biography from Richard Bernstein explores the meteoric success of the Jewish performer, while confronting the reviled practice of blackface that made Jolson a star
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BINTEL BRIEF This father is fed up with his anti-Zionist kid — and they’re not even Jewish
Bintel says please don't be like Tevye, who sat shiva for his living daughter
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How the closing of a website for Yom Kippur confessions explains the internet
The death and life of AtoneNet, a living tapestry of Jewish guilt
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Jews didn’t cause Hurricane Milton, but kind of did control the weather in biblical times
As flash floods threaten St. Petersburg, Florida, we consider Noah, the ark and how Jews pray for rain
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Sports 5 Jewish things about the Mets — and why Jewish fans adore them
The connection to the Brooklyn Dodgers, loving the underdog and bein’ amazin’
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New conspiracy theory just dropped — Jews are causing the hurricanes
Marjorie Taylor Greene accused a shadowy "them" of causing hurricanes in order to swing the presidential election
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Art What if there was a flag that both Israelis and Palestinians could take pride in flying?
Tom Haviv, creator of the Hamsa Flag Project, reflects on a utopian symbol’s meaning post-Oct. 7
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Film & TV In a searing new documentary, unimaginable pain and suffering in the West Bank
Winner of the Best Documentary award in Berlin, 'No Other Land' arrives with images of war and pleas of peace
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Why Jews see pomegranates as symbols of both love and war
The pomegranate tree planted by Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff has conflicting meanings
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Books Was the viral Ta-Nehisi Coates interview a hit piece or fair play? A journalism ethics expert weighs in.
After Tony Dokoupil’s questions on CBS Mornings faced criticism, the network said it fell short of editorial standards
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Fast Forward Why some Satmar Hasidic leaders endorsed Zohran Mamdani as mayor, stunning many Jewish voters
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News How Mamdani became New York’s next mayor, with Jews divided between fierce opposition and fiery support
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Opinion I’m an Israeli who lives in New York. Here’s why I’m voting for Mamdani
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Culture Mamdani quoted Eugene Debs in his victory speech — there’s a long Jewish history there
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Opinion The fundamental miscalculation behind the GOP’s antisemitism crisis
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Fast Forward US teen deported, Israeli rabbi wounded as tensions mount for Jewish activists in the West Bank
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Yiddish טשיקאַוועסן: אַקטיאָר דזשעסי אײַזנבערג זאָגט ער וועט אַוועקגעבן אַ נירTidbits: Actor Jesse Eisenberg says he’ll donate a kidney
מיט צען יאָר צוריק האָט ער שוין געקלערט דאָס צו טאָן.
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Fast Forward Pelosi won’t seek reelection, ending the pioneering congresswoman’s decades of Jewish outreach
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