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Culture
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Do Jews believe in the afterlife?
A rabbi explains how Jewish mysticism teaches that the soul is ever-present and hovering over its living relatives
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For Europe’s Jews, owning grand homes symbolized not just wealth, but equality
In many places, Jews couldn't own property until the 19th century. Exercising that right gave them social and political status, a new book explains
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Film & TV What would Judaism have to say about ‘The Substance?’
3 rabbis weigh in on aging, beauty and body horror
The Latest
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Art Two new statues in D.C. honor white nationalists — well, sort of
The anonymous pop up art feels satirical — but who's to say?
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Theater Jason Alexander lives out a lifelong dream, playing Tevye in ‘Fiddler on the Roof’
'I wanted to do a piece that is proudly Semitic' said the Tony winner and ‘Seinfeld' star
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How Robert Caro gets it done
The master biographer on the obsessions that drive him, whether he believes power always corrupts, and his love for Jackie Robinson
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BINTEL BRIEF How do I get this intrusive synagogue board member to leave me alone?
Here’s Bintel’s step-by-step guide to setting boundaries — physically, verbally and in your head
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Theater For ‘Ragtime’ star Brandon Uranowitz, to be Jewish is to be hopeful
The Tony Award-winning actor plays a plucky Jewish immigrant in a timely revival
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Books Is it really so wrong to be into Nazi kink?
A new book mixes memoir and theory to consider what's tangled up in Holocaust sex scenes, and Jewish identity at large
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Is Seth Meyers Jewish? His wife, kids and jokes are.
His wife Alexi Ashe is Jewish and his kids are the grandchildren of Holocaust survivors
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Film & TV He directed a film about the 1939 fascist MSG rally — here’s what he saw at Donald Trump’s
Marshall Curry saw ‘brilliant’ stagecraft and dark, familiar rhetoric
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Culture ‘My mayor Muslim, my bagel Jewish’ — the Knicks chant capturing New York’s soul
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Books In ‘Something We Said,’ Richard Pryor’s daughter finds words to discuss the unspeakable
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Opinion It’s time for Jews who love Israel to give up on Zionism
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Opinion Israeli and diaspora Jews live in different realities. The Israel Day parade proved it
In Case You Missed It
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Fast Forward This Israeli filmmaker harshly criticizes his country. Pro-Palestinian activists boycotted him anyway
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Fast Forward Trump is imagining an Israel after Netanyahu. So are many Israelis. Netanyahu isn’t biting.
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Fast Forward Spain reports 86% rise in antisemitic incidents, as interior minister takes aim at ‘xenophobia’
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Fast Forward Cara Trager, beloved Queens Jewish communal leader and lifetime journalist, dies at 71