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Culture Is the ‘hot rodent men’ trend uh, good for the Jews?
Antisemitic caricatures often depict Jews as rats so we've got some baggage around the idea
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Music Beyoncé’s ode to Levi’s Jeans is giving the brand a moment
Levi’s was founded in 1853 by a German-Jewish immigrant
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Fast Forward Is Louis Vuitton selling pro-Palestinian T-shirts for $800? Social media and fashion industry norms are divided.
Nicolas Ghesquière, Louis Vuitton’s creative director since 2013, is sometimes credited with popularizing the keffiyeh as a fashion item
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Culture Is every red carpet look sort of Jewish? This meme queen says yes
Shoshana Gottlieb's Jewish red carpet reviews have a devoted — and demanding — audience
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Film & TV A ‘new look’ at the Holocaust through fashion recycles old excuses for Nazi collaborators
'The New Look' is a show about World War II, told through Coco Chanel and Christian Dior
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Culture In Princess Diana’s red dress, a symbol of the Jewish rise to prominence in the UK shmatta business
A Museum of London exhibit pays homage to the Jews who helped to create outfits for everyday folk as well as the likes of Jimi Hendrix and David Bowie
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The Schmooze Who invited that cockroach to the Met Gala?
The event feted Karl Lagerfeld, but it seemed as though Kafka was the guest of honor
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Life Chanel had a complicated relationship with Jews — until Karl Lagerfeld showed up
Lagerfeld made the brand so iconic and inclusive that it was easy to forget everything that was problematic about Chanel herself, writes a fashion historian
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Holy Ground A Jewish farmer broke ground on a synagogue in an Illinois cornfield. His neighbors showed up to help.
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Opinion I discovered anti-Zionism at the University of Michigan. I’m glad it lives on there
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Opinion An alarming new battleground in campus fights over Israel
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Culture An Israeli genocide scholar looks to Israel’s history to understand ‘what went wrong’
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Culture Jack Kirby finally gets his corner of the city that made him super
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Opinion When it comes to Israel/Palestine, everyone is sure that everyone else is a bigot
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Fast Forward Elected PA Jewish judge leaves Democratic party, citing ‘disturbingly common’ antisemitism
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Fast Forward At Abraham Foxman’s funeral, an elegy for the last generation with direct ties to the Holocaust