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Art
How one artist turned the horrors of Oct. 7 into a bold series of paintings
In David Stern's 'Silent Running' are images of terror and the colors of conflagration
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Film & TV Eichmann’s judgment — through the eyes of those who burned his body
Jake Paltrow speaks about his Hebrew-language film ‘June Zero’
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Film & TV The greatest (and also the worst) Marx Brothers movies ranked from 13-to-1
Some of the Marx Brothers movies were way ahead of their time — a few remain stuck in it
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Art He photographed athletes and he photographed nudes — André Steiner contained multitudes
Just in time for the Olympics, Paris is celebrating the work of Jewish photographer André Steiner
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Duck Everlasting — The secret Jewish history of Donald Duck
Was Disney's sputtering creature a symbol of liberty or of mankind's fowl propensity to embrace duck-tatorship?
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This Mexican diplomat helped Jews flee Hitler. Does that make him Mexico’s Schindler?
Some say Gilberto Bosques was just doing his job. Others call him a hero
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Film & TV In the story of a Jewish teenager coming out and coming of age, a brilliantly understated film
Jeremy Borison's 'Unspoken' is a triumph for a debut film director
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Film & TV Antisemitism isn’t the only reason Hollywood Jews are upset about that Academy Museum exhibit
The exhibit celebrates Hollywood's Jewish founders while also not shying away from some hard truths
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With never-before-seen security cam footage, movie brings viewers inside tense hostage crisis at Texas synagogue
‘Colleyville’ is Israeli-American director Dani Menkin’s latest documentary to explore a slice of modern Jewish history
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Theater His family survived the Holocaust. He survived long COVID. It’s Josh Fox’s ‘survivor’s obligation’ to fight the oil industry
In ‘The Edge of Nature,’ the Oscar nominee uses folk song to warn us about climate change
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Books We’re in a psychological war with ‘the greatest propaganda machine in history’ — will we survive it?
In 'Stories Are Weapons,' Annalee Newitz identifies our mortal enemy, who looks awfully familiar
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Fast Forward Why some Satmar Hasidic leaders endorsed Zohran Mamdani as mayor, stunning many Jewish voters
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Culture Mamdani’s first statement on antisemitism as mayor-elect got some weird pushback
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News How Mamdani became New York’s next mayor, with Jews divided between fierce opposition and fiery support
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Culture Mamdani quoted Eugene Debs in his victory speech — there’s a long Jewish history there
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Opinion Why a concert hall should be the last place for a protest — particularly an antisemitic one like this
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Looking Forward What Hailey Bieber smoothies and instant matzo ball soup reveal about American Jewish taste
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Culture Mamdani’s first statement on antisemitism as mayor-elect got some weird pushback
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Film & TV On the trail of a priceless dove, a group of Palestinians and Israelis find that peace is for the birds
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