The new Anne Frank musical wants you to laugh at ‘woke culture’ — but is it funny?
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Theater Why is everyone laughing at Anne Frank?
'Slam Frank,' an edgy new musical, would have been unimaginable a few years ago. What changed?
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Fast Forward Man burns library books on Jewish history, including Anne Frank’s diary, in Jewish suburb of Cleveland
A watchdog in New Jersey alerted officials in Beachwood, Ohio, about the incident when they saw it on social media
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Fast Forward Jacqueline van Maarsen, Anne Frank’s best friend, dies at 96
Van Maarsen dedicated the last decades of her life to lecturing about the Holocaust and Frank
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Culture Anne Frank didn’t live here — she never had the chance
A full-scale recreation of the 'Secret Annex' opens in New York, a place the Frank family sought vainly to reach
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Books What we write about when we write about Anne Frank
In the latest entry in the 'Jewish Lives' series, Ruth Franklin explores the 'Many Lives' of the most famous witness to the Holocaust
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Fast Forward Demonstrators with Nazi flags target a Michigan production of ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’
Some chanted “Heil Trump,” a witness said
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Fast Forward Norwegian street artist defends mural of Anne Frank in a keffiyeh
The European Jewish Congress had denounced the mural, meant as a statement against the Gaza war, as “a gross distortion of history.”
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