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Culture
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They were a kosher bakery success story — 80 years later, people are still trying to make a buck off their babka
The tale of Schick's Bakery is one of 20th-century ingenuity and 21st-century capitalism
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United across time, two superhero artists join forces to fight bigotry
Trenton Doyle Hancock confronts Philip Guston at the Jewish Museum
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Books How antisemitic was Joseph Conrad, author of ‘Heart of Darkness’ and ‘The Secret Agent’?
The author was known to disparage Jews, yet sometimes he was also thought to be one
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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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How a son of Holocaust survivors joined a commune and helped to free ‘Hurricane’ Carter
Compassion for the underdog has been a constant theme in the life of Sam Chaiton
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Was a ravishing, fictional heroine inspired by a real-life Jewish philanthropist?
Following in the footsteps of Sir Walter Scott, a novelist seeks the inspiration for Rebecca of Ivanhoe
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Is RFK about to ban goyslop — and what on earth is that?
Online, an antisemitic term for low-quality food has gone mainstream in the wake of RFK's war on Big Food
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A Jewish snowman movie would have made a lot more sense than Netflix’s ‘Hot Frosty’
We have a whole mythology about reanimating natural materials — the golem!
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Books In the shadows of Nazi viciousness, an unlikely story of love and heroism blooms
Adriana Allegri's debut novel 'The Sunflower House' was inspired by a real-life Lebensborn institution
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An Israeli woman in playing Mary in a Netflix movie — and the outcry is getting weird
Debates over whether Israelis or Palestinians are racially closer to Mary feel kind of like eugenics
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Has Mark Zuckerberg become the anti-Elon Musk?
A facepalm-worthy rap cover from Zuck sets him apart from Musk's recent antics
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Why is the latest Jesus movie about, uh, mixed martial arts?
The prince of peace himself is not the only muscular Christian in 'The Carpenter'
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Music For Bob Dylan’s biographer, ‘A Complete Unknown’ is a dream come true — even if it’s mostly fiction
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Culture They were a kosher bakery success story — 80 years later, people are still trying to make a buck off their babka
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Culture ‘A Complete Unknown’ proves that one thing about Bob Dylan will certainly endure
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Film & TV Why ‘The Brutalist’ resonated so deeply with me
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