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Culture A Golem grows in Brooklyn — but do Jews need it?
Adam Mansbach’s ‘The Golem of Brooklyn’ updates a Jewish legend for the antisemitism of today
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Fast Forward The Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospital in Brooklyn is ready for patients. It can withstand a storm worse than Sandy
The storm-resilient complex features a 7-foot-tall bronze statue of the Supreme Court justice, a Brooklyn native
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Culture When we all met at Dubrow’s Cafeteria
Photographer Marcia Bricker Halperin reflects on the Jewish diner that shaped her as a Brooklynite and launched her artistic career
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Culture Why that New York Times article on the Brooklyn eruv is sparking controversy
Jews are upset at coverage they see as othering Orthodox Judaism
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Theater In this new play, all unhappy (Jewish) families are alike — and some look suspiciously familiar
Literary gossip! Emotional affairs! Katie Holmes! 'The Wanderers,' Anna Ziegler's off-Broadway play about marriage and fidelity, has it all.
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Culture This Orthodox New Yorker feeds more cats than you
I followed a Jewish cat rescuer on his morning rounds to see what it's like caring for feral felines in a city that doesn't want to deal with them
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Film & TV Do horror and Hasidim mix? A new film says yes
‘The Offering’ aims to introduce audiences to authentic Jewish characters — and scare them along the way
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Fast Forward Dramatic video of Crown Heights hit-and-run circulates after spike in antisemitic hate crimes in NYC
Authorities are investigating the Brooklyn incident
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Opinion I’m a UCLA professor. Why didn’t the administration stop last night’s egregious violence?
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News ‘Everyone gets to be uncomfortable’: How Jewish students at Brown kept antisemitism at bay
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Opinion Student activists aren’t antisemites; they’re partners in a dance of death
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Fast Forward Marjorie Taylor Greene says she opposed antisemitism bill because it rejects ‘Gospel’ that ‘the Jews’ handed Jesus to executioners
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Fast Forward Congress grills K-12 school officials from New York, Berkeley and Maryland on responses to antisemitism
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Theater ‘It’s 60-year-old boy meets 60-year-old-girl’: Steven Skybell on playing Herr Schultz in ‘Cabaret’