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The mysterious case of Barbra Streisand and the missing half-pound of Zabar’s sturgeon
From the Forward's lox columnist, a tale of two singers — with a brief musical interlude
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How the chicken man of Crown Heights became a Hasidic St. Francis of Assisi
Near Lubavitcher Headquarters, 21-year-old Daniel Yeroshalmi keeps watch over the 20 hens in the Crown Heights Homestead
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The Department of Labor told us to embrace ‘Americanism.’ What’s that?
The phrase has a long history with the Ku Klux Klan
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He works at a Holocaust museum by day. How’d he end up in ‘Marty Supreme’?
Before he was cast opposite Timothée Chalamet, Isaac Simon had no acting experience. That helped.
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Film & TV In Jordan’s pick for the Oscars, a contradictory message about ethnonationalism
‘All That’s Left of You’ is a touching portrayal of a Palestinian family, but ends on a problematic note
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Film & TV In a stylish mystery, Jodie Foster releases the dybbuk of French Jewish identity
‘A Private Life’ gets at the heart of a demon France has yet to fully exorcise
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The Mississippi synagogue arson suspect has a Christian fitness site. Here’s what that tells us
The alleged arsonist's Christian-influenced fitness program reveals what ideas may have influenced him
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Film & TV Charles Grodin was a curmudgeon with a gooey center
A new documentary shows how the late actor used his celebrity for good
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These are the right-wing extremists we’re watching out for in 2026
Antisemitism, Holocaust denial and neo-Nazi ideology are all the rage among the rising stars of the new right
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Looking Forward Emma Goldman, superstar? The Jewish anarchist has a surprising role to play in American musical theater
Goldman turns up a lot in musicals — what would she think of that?
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Bob Dylan warned us about guys like Stephen Miller
Dylan's 1983 album 'Infidels' contains prescient observations about contemporary politics — but something's been lost in translation
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