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Hipster Jew does The Big Lebowski, Sesame Street style.
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The Jewish Week gives its first Excellence in Journalism Award to photojournalist Ruth Gruber.
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Twelve tracks recorded by Amy Winehouse are being held in the Island Records vault, and the record label intends to keep them there.
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Jonathan Lethem talks to Laura Miller about the literary world and high school.
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N+1 reprints the introduction to Ellen Willis’s “No More Nice Girls.”
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Either Sacha Baron Cohen or Jonah Hill could star in Quentin Tarantino’s next film.
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Shalom Auslander is developing a comedy for Showtime.
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The Actors’ Temple is on hard times, but the historic Midtown synagogue isn’t throwing in the towel quite yet.
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