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Culture Leonard Bernstein and Taylor Swift: Both musical geniuses, but only one movie captures the spirit of their artistry
Back-to-back screenings of ‘The Eras Tour’ and ‘Maestro’ yield surprising insights into the enchantments of fame
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Film & TV ‘The Zone of Interest’ asks: Why would a family want to live at Auschwitz?
Jonathan Glazer’s masterpiece follows the life of Nazi Commandant Rudolf Höss
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Film & TV How a sly Jewish playwright wrote ‘the Citizen Kane of horror movies’
Despite unassuming beginnings, Anthony Shaffer's 'Wicker Man' has become a cult film of gargantuan proportions
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Film & TV Blending seemingly contradictory Jewish clichés, Jennifer Lawrence’s Netflix sex comedy works better than it should
Elements of 'No Hard Feelings' should be familiar to viewers of 'Seinfeld' and 'Annie Hall'
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Culture Cancel culture comes for a documentary about Jews critical of Israel
'Israelism' exposes attempts to control the narrative about Israel. Now those same forces are coming for the film
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Fast Forward European film festivals hit with controversies over Israel-Hamas war
A festival in Stockholm apologized for disinviting an Israeli-American, while pro-Palestinian filmmakers pulled out of an Amsterdam fest
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Culture A new film unspools the storied life of Jewish outsider artist and Nuremberg trials guard Nathan Hilu
“Nathan-ism,” a film by Elan Golod about a LES artist who guarded Nazis as a young soldier during the Nuremberg trials, premieres in New York
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Film & TV In a blockbuster film about the Ukrainian Robin Hood, the Baal Shem Tov makes his debut
Actor Luzer Twersky portrays the founder of Hasidic Judaism in the movie 'Dovbush'
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