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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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Film & TV The song, and the Holocaust survivor, behind the year’s most stunning moment in film
How Joseph Wulf’s Yiddish song ‘Sunbeams,’ composed at Auschwitz, ended up in Jonathan Glazer’s ‘Zone of Interest’
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20 Jewish celebrities who died in 2023
From movie stars to politicians to Nobel Prize winners
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Theater She’d never played a Jewish character before. Then, a hit play about antisemitism came along.
Francis Benhamou heads to Broadway with Joshua Harmon's 'Prayer for the French Republic'
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The best Jewish books of 2023
Grab one (or several) of these new classics before the new year
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Why I am grateful to Ady Barkan — a man who always told it straight
The activist did not go quietly. In fact, his voice is still being heard.
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Masha Gessen will receive Hannah Arendt Prize after all, following controversy over Gaza essay
One critic claimed that Gessen’s New Yorker essay, in which they quoted Arendt, “is in clear contrast” to the philosopher
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Film & TV This documentary about American Jews and Israel has been canceled (and uncanceled) four times — and counting
'Israelism,' a documentary about young Jews critical of Israel, has landed at the center of campus antisemitism debates
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The Von Erich wrestling brothers, subjects of upcoming film ‘The Iron Claw,’ were huge in Israel
Many of those who grew up in Israel in the 1980s were big fans of the Texans who helped popularize pro wrestling
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‘Curb Your Enthusiasm,’ TV’s Jewiest comedy, to end after upcoming 12th season
"And so ‘Larry David,’ I bid you farewell," wrote the show's creator
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So what does ‘intifada’ actually mean?
Rep. Elise Stefanik equated 'intifada' with a call for genocide against Jews. So what does intifada really mean?
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If you thought her first bat mitzvah was trailblazing, wait till you hear about her second
At 83, Ruth Messinger stepped up to the bimah — just like she did 70 years ago
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Film & TV Bonhoeffer biopic tells of a pastor turned would-be Hitler assassin — but is the story true?
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News Texas schools want to add Queen Esther to the curriculum. Here’s why Jews (and many Christians) are opposed.
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News What Mike Huckabee’s ‘Kids Guide to Israel’ says about his views
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Culture At 95, Shaindel Schreiber is still dispensing babka and advice on the Lower East Side
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Fast Forward Schusterman foundation, whose fortune comes from oil, makes first donation to climate group
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Opinion Netanyahu was right to end the war in Lebanon — now Gaza must follow
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Culture 10 wicked ways to avoid talking about war and politics this Thanksgiving
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