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Art
Reeling from the anguish of Oct. 7, he’s drawn more than 300 images of beauty and hope
With his 'Daily Postcard' project, Zeev Englemayer confronts his own grief and confusion
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Film & TV In a gripping film set in 1930’s Tel Aviv, lovers fight the tide of terrorism and colonialism
Michael Winterbottom's 'Shoshana' sets a passionate love story against a volatile political backdrop
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Film & TV ‘A Real Pain,’ ‘The Brutalist’ and ‘Nobody Wants This’ rack up Golden Globe nominations
The awards are brimming with unexpected Jewish connections
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Film & TV The real problem with ‘A Real Pain’ is that it isn’t Jewish enough
Jesse Eisenberg's movie follows a Holocaust tour and the pain of its participants, but seems to forget those things are connected
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In ‘Wicked,’ the power of propaganda takes center stage
The campaign against Elphaba echoes Nazi messaging about Jews
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Ripped, dipped, sliced and shmeared — what makes a bagel a bagel?
Rippable bagels are the newest controversy in the world of bagels, but far from the first
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Film & TV What a landsman needs to know about ‘Landman’
The new Taylor Sheridan series has an — almost — very Jewish title
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Theater Leah Forster’s new off-Broadway show is anything but Orthodox
The ex-Haredi TikTok comedian on coming out and into her own in 'That's Yentatainment'
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Film & TV In ‘The Order,’ Jude Law enters the heart of white nationalist darkness
The taut thriller tells the true story of a plot to ignite a race war
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Saying ‘adieu’ to San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum
The museum is closing for at least a year — its final exhibits help explain why
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BINTEL BRIEF As a Jew, I’m starting to wonder if I can even be a progressive anymore
Bintel addresses the hard question of what to do when political labels and identities clash
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Culture ‘The Pitt’ tackled the trauma of the Tree of Life attack. Here’s how survivors of the synagogue shooting reacted to the episode.
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News Why Josh Shapiro’s memoir could complicate a presidential run
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Culture The mysterious case of Barbra Streisand and the missing half-pound of Zabar’s sturgeon
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Film & TV At Sundance, the AIDS crisis through the eyes of a bar mitzvah boy
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Opinion I’m a rabbi arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. The Book of Exodus shows us how this ends
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Fast Forward After Minneapolis shooting, local Jewish service channels a city’s grief — and resolve
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News From Alfred Dreyfus to Josh Shapiro: How the ‘dual loyalty’ charge shadows Jewish public life
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