Netflix releases photos of Bradley Cooper wearing prosthetic nose to portray Leonard Bernstein, reigniting Jewish representation debate
Cooper’s Bernstein biopic is adding fuel to the “Jewface” debate fire.
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Nonprofit: Feds should continue to monitor antisemitism at NYU
The Biden administration could soon decide that the university has adequately addressed problems raised by Jewish students
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‘Grassroots’ or ‘Greengrass’? Upper West Side appetizing shop is ensnared in Maloney-Nadler matchup
Rep. Carolyn Maloney, on a collision course with Rep. Jerry Nadler, forgets the name of a beloved West Side deli.
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Second gentleman Doug Emhoff says he didn’t expect his Judaism ‘to be such a big deal’
On a White House call to mark Jewish American Heritage Month, Emhoff said he has come to realize ‘how much this representation matters to people’
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Pinchas Stolper, Orthodox Union leader who retired after rabbi abuse scandal, dies at 90
He had sought to make Orthodox Judaism accessible to young people.
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After unearthing social media posts, French prosecutors now suspect antisemitism in elderly Jew’s death
A coalition of French Jewish groups said it welcomed the development but questioned why the press, not the police, first identified the alleged killer’s social media posts.
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Season 4 of Netflix’s ‘Stranger Things’ filmed in a Lithuanian prison where Nazis jailed Jews
Menachem Begin, the future Israeli prime minister, was imprisoned at Lukiškės for eight months in 1940 and 1941.
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Jerusalem Day right-wing march to proceed as planned, Bennett says
Jews will not be barred from the Temple Mount on the day of the Flag March, despite Palestinian threats and escalating tensions
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Junior’s, NYC’s iconic Jewish cheesecake emporium, buys back guns to protect the city it loves
A Brooklyn boy's death inspires the third-generation owner of the restaurant with deep roots in the borough
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England’s first Holocaust ‘stumbling stone’ will honor a woman who tried to rescue her family
Ada van Dantzig, who studied painting conservation in London, was killed at Auschwitz in 1943
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Palestinian Authority says IDF intentionally killed journalist; Gantz calls conclusion ‘blatant lie’
Israel has maintained that it is possible Palestinian militants were responsible for Shireen Abu Akleh’s May 11 death during an IDF raid in the West Bank
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