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Film & TV
Alamo Drafthouse employees petition to scrap screenings of 1972 Munich film ‘September 5’
The petition calls the film ‘Zionist propaganda’
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Film & TV Are these 22 films about Gaza headed to the Academy Awards?
'From Ground Zero' combines numerous shorts — some documentary, some fiction — to blur the lines between fact and fiction
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Art This pioneering female artist’s Jewish heritage is no longer a secret — but what about the rest of her life?
A documentary promises to tell Tamara de Łempicka’s true story, but doesn't bring out her full personality.
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Music Peter Yarrow sang the soundtrack to my Jewish childhood
He never led with his Jewishness, but consistently invoked the mandate of 'tikkun olam'
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Theater How a special Yiddish word and a phone company inspired Delia Ephron’s new Broadway play
A bashert team, including Daryl Roth and Susan Stroman, helped bring Ephron's memoir 'Left on Tenth' to Broadway
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In Peter Yarrow’s legacy, an uneasy blend of Jewish values and personal transgressions
The folksinging Peter of Peter, Paul and Mary has died at 86
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Jimmy Carter, Bubby and me
What happened when my grandmother took my little sister and me to President Carter's inauguration
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Everyone threatened to leave X because of the Nazis. Why didn’t they?
Bluesky is growing, but people aren't ready to leave the site formerly known as Twitter
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Why ‘Awkward’ — or ‘Umgelumpert’ — is the word of the day
Journalists have settled on a word to describe the Jan. 6 election certification, but is it the right one?
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Books In the town of Ernest Hemingway and Frank Lloyd Wright, a Nazi was hiding in plain sight
Michael Soffer's 'Our Nazi' revisits the Reinhold Kulle case in Oak Park, Illinois
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What’s the best thing to say to a mourner? A rabbi responds
At a house of shiva, listening and being present can be more important than talking
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אַבֿרהם שטערן, אַ פֿרומער ייִד, האָט פֿאַרטראַכט חשבון־מכשירים וואָס האָבן דערפֿירט צום מאָדערנעם קאָמפּיוטערײַ.
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News He was president of his synagogue. Now he wants to be LA’s next mayor.
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Fast Forward Israel just quadrupled its PR budget to $730M. Experts say it won’t work.
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Fast Forward A synagogue helped Palestinians raise money for Gaza — and found common ground over falafel