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Books
Unwieldy, unnerving, and a masterpiece — the last great Yiddish novel has arrived
Chaim Grade's unfinished epic 'Sons and Daughters' solidifies its author's position in the Yiddish pantheon
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Film & TV How Marlene Dietrich saved me — or maybe my twin sister — and helped inspire me to become a lifelong activist
Eleanor Rubin's first brush with fame and activism came unexpectedly during the 1942 Dietrich film 'The Lady Is Willing'
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Film & TV In 1913 Vienna, Freud meets Hitler — and the patient of his nightmares
Richard Ledes’ ‘V13’ stars Alan Cumming as the father of psychoanalysis
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Theater The ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ revival has us wondering — where are all the Jewish Shelley Levenes?
Bob Odenkirk plays the Jewish character in David Mamet’s drama on Broadway
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Books From an Italian Holocaust survivor, a Kafkaesque nightmare of imprisonment under fascism
Set in the Lanciano internment camp, Maria Eisenstein's 'Internee Number 6' is a testament to the power of writing
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Film & TV Why Robby said the Shema on ‘The Pitt’
In a moment of crisis, the agnostic Jewish doctor declared faith in God
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In a time of tariffs and uncertainty, this is the Jewish word we need to soothe our minds and souls
A tariff, which derives from an Arabic word that means 'notification,' is remarkably adjacent to an Aramaic word for 'translation' and 'commentary'
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Film & TV Val Kilmer was the voice of my generation’s Moses (and God)
The actor, who died Tuesday, played the Hebrew prophet three times
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Books The White House Seder started in a Pennsylvania basement. Its legacy lives on.
A new children’s book tells the story of how three Jewish staffers brought Passover to the White House
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Film & TV In this Jewish family, everybody needs therapy — especially the therapists themselves
The Argentinean series 'Family Therapy' features a pair or married therapists, who face emotional challenges of their own
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Books So much to say about Israeli violence, so little to say about violence against Jews
Pankaj Mishra's 'The World After Gaza: A History' offers a reading of current events that is more political and personal than historical
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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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