This Jewish feminist has been the NYC’s sanitation department’s official artist for 50 years. A new movie tells her story.
Meet Mierle Laderman Ukeles, the daughter of a rabbi whose "maintenance art" has gotten the documentary treatment
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Film & TV A new documentary challenges stereotypes about Orthodox Jewish women — and their wigs
'Sheitel: Beauty in the Hidden,' dives deep into Jewish women's experience of covering their hair
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Film & TV He saved dozens of kids in Auschwitz — and kept it a secret for nearly the rest of his life
The PBS documentary ‘The Last Twins’ tells the story of Erno Spiegel, who was targeted by Josef Mengele and protected the young people subjected to the Nazi doctor's experiments.
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Music An 82-year-old Jewish recording legend on his film directing debut: ‘I could have been good at this’
in 'Heart & Soul,' Kenny Vance pays tribute to the doo-wop legends who inspired his career
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Art While sculpting Jesus, this Jewish artist wrestled with his demons
In ‘Jimmy & the Demons,’ James Grashow confronted mortality as he finished his last big project
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Fast Forward Romania’s secret police trailed a Jewish photographer. Decades later, their files have become a film.
Edward Serotta did not know he was being trailed at the time.
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Culture Louis Theroux’s Netflix documentary on the manosphere takes a detour into antisemitism
Extremist beliefs feed into each other, as is obvious in 'Inside the Manosphere'
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Culture In the face of conflict over assimilation, appropriation, colonialism and hegemony, a plea for human dignity through dance
In the documentary 'Everything You Have Is Yours,' Hadar Ahuvia and Tatyana Tenenbaum find liberation in movement
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