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In an Eldridge Street mosaic, a reminder of a great Jewish artist
Mark Podwal, who died at 79, wanted people to see one of his last major works
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Oct. 7: One Year Later Years before Oct. 7, Leonard Cohen wrote a song that anticipated its darkness
A close-reading of Cohen's 'You Want It Darker' in a post-Oct. 7 world
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Oct. 7: One Year Later Their homes were destroyed on Oct. 7 — these drawings recapture the life that was
Artist Noa Harnik is using art to preserve memories of life before a massacre
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Oct. 7: One Year Later How 10/7 — like 9/11 before it — irrevocably changed the meaning of a pair of numbers
Lee Yaron tells '100 human stories' amid the horrific wreckage of 10/7
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Looking Forward How one of America’s most prominent rabbis got on the path to the pulpit
In a new book, Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove meditates on what it means to be Jewish in "such a time as this"
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Books She was the Sandy Koufax of ping pong. Now she’s the star of a children’s book.
'Ping-Pong Shabbat' puts into print the story of a modern (Orthodox) ping pong prodigy
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In place of a proud emblem of Jewish immigration in NYC, million-dollar condos and a private garden
Gentrification comes for the Bialystoker Center and Home for the Aged
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In ‘The Brutalist,’ Adrien Brody wills an impossible dream
Brady Corbet’s epic follows a Holocaust survivor struggling to seize the American Dream
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Hitler is trending on TikTok again — and they’re trying to make him seem like a nice guy
Clips of Hitler's speeches garnered millions of views on the video app, largely selected to portray the dictator as peaceful
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Why ‘schlub’ seems to be the word of the year
In an election year, a Yiddish word teaches us how to separate the competent from the incompetent
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What’s your candidate’s position on Israel? Depends what demographic you’re in
Targeted political ads enable campaigns to present one idea to one group, and a different one to another
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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 Oct. 7 changed Howard Jacobson. But his new novel is as defiant as ever.
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Culture In 1989, Harold Pinter and Jerry Schatzberg made the perfect Holocaust movie for 2026
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Fast Forward 3 more men arrested in London arson of ambulances owned by Jewish emergency service
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Fast Forward Influencer Myron Gaines performs Nazi salute, denies Holocaust death toll at Ohio University event
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