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Is it too soon for an exhibit about the massacre at the Nova Music Festival, or is it just the right time?
An exhibition about the terrorist attack on Oct. 7 comes from Tel Aviv to New York City
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Film & TV This was Robert Downey Jr.’s most Jewish (or at least most Talmudic) movie
Before 'Oppenheimer' and 'The Sympathizer,' Downey Jr. wrestled with rabbinical dilemmas in 1989's 'Chances Are'
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Meet Jill Hausman, the real rabbi who grimaced through jokes about Jews on SNL’s ‘Weekend Update’
During the five-minute appearance, Hausman reacted to increasingly cringey jokes from co-hosts Michael Che and Colin Jost.
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Art Paintings, Judaica and history collide at Tobi Kahn’s Eldridge Street exhibition
The artist’s work has a homecoming at the historic synagogue
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Claire Messud did not realize she was writing such a prescient novel
'This Strange Eventful History' is a sort of generational family saga, but its consideration of occupation and diaspora seems particularly timely
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France would like to believe that an antisemitic arson attack was an aberration — history says otherwise
A recent incident presents some eerie parallels to the First Crusade
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LA’s Academy Museum initially excluded Hollywood’s Jewish origins. A new exhibit on Jewish film pioneers fixes that.
The museum's opening more than two years ago sparked controversy for not including the industry’s Jewish beginnings
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Books Whose art is it anyway? Inside the cultural battle between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian protesters
Since the war broke out, debate has raged over the political meaning of art
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Nearly 4,000 Jews died at Jungfernhof, a Nazi camp in Latvia. This artist is fighting for a memorial to them.
The site on the outskirts of Riga, where 4,000 Jews were murdered, is now a public park
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How a pair of visionary Jews found a link between Jewish and Native American cultures
Even though poet Jerome Rothenberg is gone, his collaboration with composer Charlie Morrow goes on
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He’s named after his grandfather Alfred Dreyfus (not that one)
How a note on a grave sparked a decadeslong friendship
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