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Film & TV Robert Redford’s legacy is surprisingly Jewish
The actor and director shared the screen with Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand and Paul Newman
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Culture This Jewish comedy was the summer’s sleeper hit — and you’ve probably never heard of it
'Bad Shabbos' did not get a big theatrical release, but instead was distributed through small theaters and synagogues
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Film & TV 100 years later, just how Jewish was Peter Sellers?
The great comedian, who would have turned 100 this year, lived at a time when performers were more discreet about their Jewishness
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Film & TV This journalist uncovered America’s greatest abuses. Could he do the same today?
A new documentary, 'Cover-Up,’ shares the inside story of Seymour Hersh’s scoops
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Film & TV Seeking gangsters, must speak Yiddish: Bringing the Hasidic underworld to life in ‘Caught Stealing’
Motl Didner coached Liev Schreiber, Vincent D’Onofrio and Carol Kane on their Yiddish scenes
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Film & TV Who is Marty Reisman, the Jewish ping-pong star who inspired Timothée Chalamet’s new movie?
Marty Reisman was the inspiration for ‘Marty Supreme,’ the new Timothée Chalamet movie about a Jewish ping-pong star
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Culture Roman Polanski’s take on the Dreyfus Affair is perfect for 2025. That’s the problem
The movie wants to investigate conspiratorial mindsets. What it actually does is darker, and more frightening
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Culture ‘Eddington’ is full of conspiracy theories but it’s not about Jews. Or is it?
Ari Aster’s pandemic Western explores a small town that is losing its mind in misinformation
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Sports First Puka Nacua, now Mookie Betts: Why do sports stars keep getting antisemitic around a Jewish streamer?
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Culture Why do Jews eat Chinese food on Christmas?
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Culture We tried to fix Hallmark’s Hanukkah problem. Here’s the movie we made instead
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Holy Ground One of America’s first Jewish farms was nearly lost to history. Now these Brooklyn parents are risking everything to keep their family’s legacy alive.
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Culture On Instagram, ‘Rabbinic Fit Check’ is a look book for Jewish clergy
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Yiddish דראַמאַטישע פּאָעזיע: סוצקעװערס מעשׂיות לעבן אױף אױף דער ייִדישער בינעPoetry in drama: Sutzkever’s stories come alive on the stage
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Culture Waiting on line on Christmas is a time-honored New York tradition — was it ever thus?
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Fast Forward It’s not just a myth that Jews head to Chinese restaurants on Christmas. It’s science.
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