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Film & TV
He was guilty of armed robbery, but was the murder case against him antisemitic?
An intriguing new film revisits the criminal trial of Pierre Goldman
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He escaped the Nazis and created Britain’s first memorial to their victims. Now this artist is getting a second look.
A retrospective of the work of Fred Kormis comes as British lawmakers seek to advance a long-planned national Holocaust memorial
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Theater A zombie story about the Holocaust? This audio drama makes it work.
The dead come alive as a parable for Holocaust memory in an unorthodox new audio mini-series
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Books A Jewish, queer ghost story where the greatest fright is family expectations
A conversation with Shelly Jay Shore on their debut novel, 'Rules For Ghosting.'
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BINTEL BRIEF My dear friends’ wedding is on Yom Kippur. How do I reconcile my obligations?
Bintel says don’t take the scheduling personally — and skip the buffet
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Can there be poetry after Oct. 7? A new collection shows how
An anthology, called 'Shiva,' feels like an extension of the biblical scroll Lamentations
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Leni Riefenstahl’s Nazi sympathies ran deeper than she admitted, a new documentary about the director argues
The new documentary “Riefenstahl,” which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, takes a critical look at the “Triumph of the Will” filmmaker
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Why do Ashkenazi Jews name babies after deceased relatives? A rabbi responds.
A person’s soul lives in us when we invoke their values and their life story
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Why are Jews calling anyone who disagrees with them a kapo?
The term is one of the harshest insults between Jews, yet somehow it has become just another political epithet
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In Auschwitz, a modern love story sparks a new Jewish chapter
“I am my own community,” says the first Jew to call Oswiecim home in two decades
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Theater At the nexus of Bertolt Brecht and Bernie Sanders, a young playwright finds his place
An avowed socialist, Jesse Jae Hoon uses his plays to merge the personal and the political
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News Who was Horst Wessel, and why are people comparing Charlie Kirk to him?
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Culture Charlie Kirk kept a ‘Jewish Sabbath.’ What did he mean by that?
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Film & TV Robert Redford’s legacy is surprisingly Jewish
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News Was Charlie Kirk a martyr? Here’s why Christians are divided and Jews should care
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Culture Sam Sussman fashions a mother-son love story with a side helping of Bob Dylan
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News In Charlie Kirk, Orthodox Jews found a champion — and a wedge
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Fast Forward Palestinian Authority arrests suspect in 1982 attack on Paris Jewish restaurant
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Fast Forward Netanyahu says Israel did not kill Charlie Kirk, rejecting an idea circulating on the far right
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