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Culture Bernie Madoff is the original scammer. Why did it take so long to get a Netflix show about him?
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Film & TV How a Black and Jewish punk band defied South African apartheid — and how it came undone
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Film & TV The best Jewish (and Jew-ish) movies of 2022
The year's best Jewish films engaged with the complicated legacy of Jewish storytelling
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Film & TV To know what Saul Bellow thinks of cancel culture, read his work (or watch this film)
A new PBS documentary confronts what made the novelist so controversial — and so great
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Fast Forward Documentary traces Idina Menzel’s rise from bat mitzvah performer to Broadway icon
“Idina Menzel: Which Way to the Stage” shows the singer on a tour in 2018 — which included a stop in Pittsburgh just after the Tree of Life shooting
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Film & TV In this overlooked documentary, the son of Holocaust survivors embarks on a seemingly impossible mission
In 'The Presence of Their Absence,' Fred Zaidman searches for evidence of his family's lost story
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Film & TV How a Jewish family saved Thomas Jefferson’s home
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