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Film & TV
When Bob Newhart was my rabbi — and I was his
I'm a rabbi and stand-up comic. Newhart, a practicing Catholic, was my inspiration
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Politics Trump says he had God on his side — Bob Dylan knew it was never that simple
In his speech accepting the Republican presidential nomination, Trump claimed a divine favor that can never be proven
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The RNC is trying to sell big tent Republicanism — but the tent is still Christian
Diversity took center stage throughout the RNC, yet veiled references reassured Trump's Evangelical base that the party is still Christian
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That time Bob Dylan played Elijah the prophet in an underrated Western — and did a better job than you might think
Sam Peckinpah's 1973 'Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid' is getting another look with the release of a new DVD box set
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This horror movie stars a Jewish grandma from Brooklyn. A sweet little old lady she’s not
A granddaughter’s love and offbeat family history drive the dark and campy film ‘Grandma’s House’
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How New York’s male Jewish intellectuals are still shaping our politics and culture (for better and worse)
Two new books and a documentary about Norman Mailer argue the continuing relevance of Jewish men who tried to secure their place in postwar America
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So, how did the West become antisemitic?
Scholar Ivan Marcus examines the origins of the world's oldest hatred
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What Stephen Sondheim knew about Donald Trump’s would-be assassin — and the American culture that produced him
Sondheim had the idea that would-be presidential assassins are trying to live out a version of the American dream gone rotten
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Film & TV Did Marvel’s ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ really make an Israeli superhero Russian?
Uproar over changes to Shira Haas' character Sabra have prompted online outrage — but are they true?
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How a legendary Jewish sociologist’s faith in reason is what we need in this dangerous, fist-pumping time
The son of.a French rabbi, Émile Durkheim understood the dangers of succumbing to our basest instincts
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In a young boy’s diary, a record of how Jews lived to the fullest, even in the face of death
YIVO’s new online exhibition tells the story of cultural life in the Vilna ghetto
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News Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s selection as JTS commencement speaker roils graduating class
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Opinion How Israel became a country where teenagers murder each other in cold blood
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Sports NBA coach Steve Kerr: ‘Israel sought revenge for Oct. 7 and now 72,000 Palestinians have been killed’
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Film & TV A new documentary challenges stereotypes about Orthodox Jewish women — and their wigs
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News Most Jewish voters rate Mamdani poorly, new poll finds
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Fast Forward After a Maryland teacher’s death, her 200-piece Judaica collection finds new life in a Jewish museum
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Fast Forward British Green Party candidate tweeted about killing Zionists from Anne Frank parody account
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Yiddish World New documentary captures the lively history of Yiddish theater in America