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Books
He could have avoided persecution in Nazi Germany — he got bar mitzvahed instead
'Half-Jew — Full Life’ tells the story of Gerd “Pips” Phillipsohn's life before and after Hitler came to power.
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What will become of the Dutch farm school that saved my father from the Nazis?
A plan to create housing and a new memorial center on the site of Holland's 'Werkdorp Wieringermeer' is drawing mixed reviews
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How I learned to laugh at neo-Nazis
'One Battle After Another' was a refreshing satire of white nationalism in a world of didactic lectures
The Latest
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‘The Pitt’ tackled the trauma of the Tree of Life attack. Here’s how survivors of the synagogue shooting reacted to the episode.
The HBO Max drama evoked the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history to show how trauma's aftereffects endure
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Film & TV She thought she knew her mother. Then she learned about the concentration camp
In the documentary ‘My Underground Mother,’ Marisa Fox uncovers her mother’s hidden past as a Holocaust survivor
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Film & TV A Jewish lawyer sued Henry Ford and changed how we think about hate speech
The documentary ‘Sapiro v. Ford’ explores how Aaron Sapiro took on the father of the Model T
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How ‘a bundle of letters’ became a cornerstone of life advice for American Jews
Launched 120 years ago today in 1906, the Forward’s A Bintel Brief advice column explores 'the most interesting nooks of people’s souls'
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His mother is Israeli, his father is Palestinian. His life? Complicated.
Ibrahim Miari's autobiographical one-man play, 'In Between', is a valuable account of his dual identity
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Film & TV Judd Apatow on why Mel Brooks’ influence ‘will last as long as our jokes’
Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio, directors of the new HBO documentary on Brooks, talk about his legacy of laughter
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The Jewish women who kept Confederate graves from disappearing
In Virginia, they cared for the graves of Jewish Confederate soldiers — turning burial, not ideology, into an act of obligation and memory
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Film & TV How the Israeli police’s first trans volunteer fought bigotry on the force
In the documentary 'The First Lady,' Efrat Tilma shows that resilience is key to fighting prejudice
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