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Culture
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How Robert Caro gets it done
The master biographer on the obsessions that drive him, whether he believes power always corrupts, and his love for Jackie Robinson
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BINTEL BRIEF How do I get this intrusive synagogue board member to leave me alone?
Here’s Bintel’s step-by-step guide to setting boundaries — physically, verbally and in your head
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Theater For ‘Ragtime’ star Brandon Uranowitz, to be Jewish is to be hopeful
The Tony Award-winning actor plays a plucky Jewish immigrant in a timely revival
The Latest
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Books Is it really so wrong to be into Nazi kink?
A new book mixes memoir and theory to consider what's tangled up in Holocaust sex scenes, and Jewish identity at large
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Is Seth Meyers Jewish? His wife, kids and jokes are.
His wife Alexi Ashe is Jewish and his kids are the grandchildren of Holocaust survivors
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Film & TV He directed a film about the 1939 fascist MSG rally — here’s what he saw at Donald Trump’s
Marshall Curry saw ‘brilliant’ stagecraft and dark, familiar rhetoric
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How do you solve a conundrum like Menachem Mendel Schneerson?
The charismatic Rebbe, who died in 1994, is the subject of Ezra Glinter's 'Jewish Lives' biography
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How the humorless cruelty of Trump supporters betrays a Jewish tradition of insult comedy
Tony Hinchliffe, who spoke at Trump's MSG rally, cited the influence of comics like Don Rickles — but there's a key difference
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What American Jews need to know about Germany’s growing far-right antisemitism
The AfD party promises to deport immigrants in language that evokes Nazi beliefs
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Books Tangled up in Boo? Bob Dylan wants this South African horror press to look at his short stories
Crystal Lake Publishing got an unexpected shout-out from the Nobel winner
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How a brilliant Jewish philosopher anticipated the cult of Donald Trump
Walter Benjamin's 1936 essay on art in the age of mechanical reproduction looks particularly prescient today
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