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Art
How one artist turned the horrors of Oct. 7 into a bold series of paintings
In David Stern's 'Silent Running' are images of terror and the colors of conflagration
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Film & TV Eichmann’s judgment — through the eyes of those who burned his body
Jake Paltrow speaks about his Hebrew-language film ‘June Zero’
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Film & TV The greatest (and also the worst) Marx Brothers movies ranked from 13-to-1
Some of the Marx Brothers movies were way ahead of their time — a few remain stuck in it
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Art He photographed athletes and he photographed nudes — André Steiner contained multitudes
Just in time for the Olympics, Paris is celebrating the work of Jewish photographer André Steiner
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Duck Everlasting — The secret Jewish history of Donald Duck
Was Disney's sputtering creature a symbol of liberty or of mankind's fowl propensity to embrace duck-tatorship?
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This Mexican diplomat helped Jews flee Hitler. Does that make him Mexico’s Schindler?
Some say Gilberto Bosques was just doing his job. Others call him a hero
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Film & TV In the story of a Jewish teenager coming out and coming of age, a brilliantly understated film
Jeremy Borison's 'Unspoken' is a triumph for a debut film director
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Film & TV Antisemitism isn’t the only reason Hollywood Jews are upset about that Academy Museum exhibit
The exhibit celebrates Hollywood's Jewish founders while also not shying away from some hard truths
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With never-before-seen security cam footage, movie brings viewers inside tense hostage crisis at Texas synagogue
‘Colleyville’ is Israeli-American director Dani Menkin’s latest documentary to explore a slice of modern Jewish history
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Theater His family survived the Holocaust. He survived long COVID. It’s Josh Fox’s ‘survivor’s obligation’ to fight the oil industry
In ‘The Edge of Nature,’ the Oscar nominee uses folk song to warn us about climate change
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Books We’re in a psychological war with ‘the greatest propaganda machine in history’ — will we survive it?
In 'Stories Are Weapons,' Annalee Newitz identifies our mortal enemy, who looks awfully familiar
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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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