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Culture
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The PBS series ‘Black and Jewish America’ gets it right — except the Black and Jewish part
The documentary traces years of alliance and rupture — but its false binary perpetuates stereotypes
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Looking Forward Why am I so much better at singing in Hebrew than in English?
Solving a mystery from my bat mitzvah, two decades later
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Created in hiding during WWII, a Jewish artist’s underground ’zines are finally rising to the surface
From 1943 to 1945, Curt Bloch produced 96 editions of a satirical publication he called 'The Underwater Cabaret'
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Theater The Jew who put Hitler on trial — and the play that stages his story
The new play ‘Hans Litten: The Jew Who Cross-Examined Hitler’ recounts the little-known story of a young lawyer’s crusade
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He documented a changing Jewish world, and the Jewish world changed him
Photographer Bill Aron's work is on display at a retrospective at the American Jewish Historical Society
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For Israel’s foremost chiropterologist, every bat is a mitzvah
Professor Yossi Yovel, author of 'The Genius Bat,' hopes to show that the nocturnal creatures are not, in fact, the stuff of nightmares
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Robert Kraft’s new Super Bowl ad about antisemitism already feels dated
The ‘Sticky Note’ ad may not stick the landing on stopping Jew hate
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The Muppets are my rabbi, and they should be yours
Can a tutu-clad felt armadillo be a bastion of wisdom? Absolutely.
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Film & TV In ‘Black and Jewish America,’ Henry Louis Gates Jr explores the history of Black-Jewish partnership and conflict
A new PBS series on Black and Jewish relations shows the promise and peril of allyship
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Film & TV When Catherine O’Hara delivered the perfect Purim spiel
The ‘Schitt’s Creek’ actress, who died at 71, once gave a riotous turn as an actress playing a Southern Jewish matriarch
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Film & TV Netflix’s ‘Queen of Chess’ tracks the rise of Judit Polgar — but leaves her Jewishness out of it
The documentary covers the grandmaster’s barrier-breaking career and sidelines a key piece of where she came from
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Culture Inside the ancient Christian theology driving modern antisemitism
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News Jews paused Indiana’s abortion ban — by turning a religious freedom law against the evangelical right
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Opinion The moral degradation of Israel’s far right is even worse than you think
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News Mamdani to attend Passover Seder as he navigates ties with Jewish groups amid rising antisemitism
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Culture This isn’t Barbra Streisand’s ‘Yentl’ — it isn’t I.B. Singer’s either
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Culture Oct. 7 changed Howard Jacobson. But his new novel is as defiant as ever.
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