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Culture
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Mexican Jews love their country. But do they love the next president? It’s complicated
Claudia Sheinbaum is Jewish, but her Jewish constituents care about politics, not identity
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The war comes to the Park Slope Food Coop — could it also provide the blueprint for peace?
This isn't the cooperatively-owned grocery's first schism over Israel and BDS
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Books This Auschwitz book trend has got to stop — the sooner the better
It is time to rise up and say: No more book titles including the words 'of Auschwitz'
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Why a museum on prewar Jewish life in Europe was envisioned for New York, but never built
YIVO’s Museum of the Homes of the Past was both too early — and too late
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Is the ‘hot rodent men’ trend uh, good for the Jews?
Antisemitic caricatures often depict Jews as rats so we've got some baggage around the idea
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BINTEL BRIEF How can I get my non-Jewish friends to acknowledge my holidays?
Bintel says: Try inviting them over for blintzes on Shavuot
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Theater ‘What Do I Do With All This Heritage?’ A new play celebrates Asian Jewish America in all its diversity
The salon theater show captures the community's joys and struggles — with songs, prayers, and K-pop
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How designer mezuzah covers and Torah pointers are putting the ‘Jew’ into ‘Jumanji’
For Lisa Van Allsburg and her husband Chris, Judaica is a family affair
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Behind a dramatic election in France, the rise of a new Jewish leader — and also antisemitism
A surprisingly strong Socialist performance was led by Raphaël Glucksmann, whose grandparents emigrated to France in the 1930s
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A new movie about fashion icon Diane von Furstenberg explores legacy of her mother’s Holocaust experience
“I had realized who I was. And where I came from,” the inventor of the wrap dress said about speaking about her mother’s survival of Auschwitz
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A new ‘Hunger Games’ book is coming out — and readers think it will be about Gaza
Suzanne Collins just announced a new prequel, due in 2025, focused on the use of propaganda in war
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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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