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Film & TV Can ‘September 5,’ a film about Israeli hostages in a time of Israeli hostages, survive the news cycle?
Tim Fehlbaum’s film about the Munich massacre is hard to separate from today’s headlines
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BINTEL BRIEF Readers respond to our advice on bullying, sluttiness, retirement, Nazi memorabilia and more
Your turn: Here's what you thought of recent Bintel columns, including one from a woman who sat shiva for a living sister and another on interrupting
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Film & TV The Emmy nominees make a solid case for supporting striking writers and actors
‘Fleishman,’ ‘Maisel’ and other Jewish shows are up for big wins
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Music For one Jewish rock ’n’ roll legend, loving Sandy Koufax and R.E.M. is not a contradiction
With The Baseball Project supergroup, Steve Wynn has found a way to embrace his two passions
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My boyfriend made me into an AI bot. It’s really, really Jewish
Can ChatGPT be a Jewish woman?
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Before Google, before Wikipedia, this DIY almanac shaped a Jewish generation
Even if you've never heard of 'The Jewish Catalog,' which turns 50 this year, it probably changed your life.
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Film & TV Elie Wiesel reviewed ‘Oppenheimer’ — and it made him shudder
In 1969 the author of ‘Night’ was shaken by a play about the father of the atom bomb
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What do you do with a Jewish cemetery in a town without Jews?
Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, once had a thriving Jewish community. What happened when their dead were left in one woman’s care?
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Jonah Hill’s therapy-speak exposes the dark side of the Nice Jewish Boy
The drama surrounding Hill's ex-girlfriend reveals the way therapy-speak is dangerous
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Film & TV Alan Arkin and the three pillars of Judaism
Though not an observant Jew, the actor embodied more than a few Jewish values
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Is Barbie Jewish? The complex Jewish history of the doll, explained
One of the most anticipated blockbuster movies in recent years takes on the doll with a uniquely American Jewish story
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This massive collection of 11 million postage stamps represents every life lost in the Holocaust
The stamps, collected by children, are on display at the American Philatelic Society with letters from survivors and victims
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Film & TV Bonhoeffer biopic tells of a pastor turned would-be Hitler assassin — but is the story true?
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Culture At 95, Shaindel Schreiber is still dispensing babka and advice on the Lower East Side
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Fast Forward Trump attorney general pick Pam Bondi: 5 things Jews should know
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Opinion As a Jewish biblical scholar in Houston, I’m enraged that Texas is adopting this biblically illiterate new curriculum
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News With a roster of promising athletes, Vienna’s 115-year-old Hakoah Sports Club has found new life
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News Israel reached a ceasefire in Lebanon. Why does Gaza seem so hard?
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Culture Barbra Streisand recorded here — and so did Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, John Lennon and, uh, The Village People
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Fast Forward Lee Zeldin, Trump’s pick to helm EPA, says he received bomb threat with ‘pro-Palestinian themed message’
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