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Books
Kosher pork and Jews riding sows — how pigs came to define Jewish identity
It might be forbidden, but Jews have a long and complicated relationship with the pig
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Theater Ex-hasidic, trans and brutally honest, Lili Rosen invites you to her ‘Second Circumcision’
The one-woman show is a funny, poignant account of the performer’s transition
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We bought the viral Amazon ‘tuchus’ boxes for Sukkot. What does that say about us?
OK, it was me. I bought them. But I wasn’t the only one
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Politics Why Doug Emhoff shared his bar mitzvah with a guy named Scott
The second gentleman has often spoken of the brown velour suit he wore that day. But a photo has never surfaced — until now
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Music Rufus Wainwright called Trump out for using ‘Hallelujah’ — and showed he doesn’t know what the song means either
Cohen’s masterpiece is not an ‘ode to tolerance’
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The urban sukkah: In NYC, they’re on rooftops, terraces, sidewalks and more
No backyard? No problem! City-dwellers build huts for Sukkot wherever they can
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Art He left Berlin with 10 marks in his pocket — he came back with an art collection worth hundreds of millions
Heinz Berggruen led a life on the road and on the run before he brought his artwork back home
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A Forverts truck has turned up as a prop in a Timothée Chalamet movie
The delivery truck with Hebrew lettering was spotted on a film set on the Lower East Side
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Columbus may have had Jewish heritage — that doesn’t mean he was Jewish
The explorer’s writings betrayed a Christian fervor
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Books From snoot to tail, a 3,000-year history of Jews and the pig
A professor of religious studies explores how the pig became the ultimate Jewish taboo — and an inadvertent marker of Jewish identity
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Film & TV What’s up with the swastikas and Nazi imagery in ‘Megalopolis?’
Coppola's polarizing epic is neither the first nor the best movie to make dubious points with Nazi motifs
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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 Trump’s humiliation of Netanyahu marks a sea change in the US-Israel relationship
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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