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Culture
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Why Paul McCartney should be known as ‘the Jewish Beatle’
The secret Jewish history of Paul McCartney
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Theater ‘I haven’t really accepted he’s dead’ — scenes from the Stephen Sondheim estate sale
Bidding on Sweeney, la-la-la. Drinking bellinis, la-la-la. Hi-ho the glamorous life!
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Film & TV Why ‘Hava Nagila’ is TV’s new fight song
‘Knuckles’ and ‘The Boys’ recently used the song in some elaborate fight scenes
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Film & TV The secret Jewish history of Dick Van Dyke
The veteran comic actor's eponymous TV show was the brainchild of Carl Reiner and bears a passing resemblance to 'Seinfeld'
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Books She longed to be a lover and an outlaw; she became a writer instead
Francine Prose's memoir '1974' is a portrait of a relatively brief encounter and an entire generation
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Theater ‘It’s my family play.’ Tony winner David Adjmi talks ‘Stereophonic’
Adjmi's play, nominated for 13 Tonys, is about a band's tumultuous act of creation
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Etgar Keret: AI thinks I wrote a number of novels that don’t exist. So I tried to
I didn't write 'The Flashlight's Journey,' at least originally. But it's never too late
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‘We’re all scarred in different ways’: The next generation of Holocaust testimony
As survivors die, their descendants are finding new ways to keep their stories alive
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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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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