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Film & TV The greatest Jewish Hollywood character you’ve never heard of
How a cigar-chomping producer named Maurice Duke became king of B (or maybe C) movies
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Film & TV 7 great new films from Israel coming soon to a (big or small) screen near you
Documentaries and social dramas were among the highlights at this year’s Jerusalem Film Festival
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Film & TV Lena Dunham’s new movie is full of sex — but not at all sexy
‘Sharp Stick’ follows the virginal Sarah Jo as she experiments with porn and affairs, with mixed success
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Fast Forward Teen star gets ‘the most expensive bar mitzvah ever’ in film version of “13: The Musical”
Eli Golden plays Evan Goldman in the Netflix adaptation of the Broadway show about a Jewish fish out of water
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Film & TV Just how Jewish is Betty Boop?
Born on Aug. 9, 1930, the iconic cartoon character has both animated and real-life Yiddish ancestors
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Film & TV From Argentina, a surprisingly delightful movie about a rabbi in Taiwan
In ‘Shalom Taiwan,’ a synagogue leader travels far out of his comfort zone to discover the secret to happiness
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Film & TV Why ‘Nope’ spotlights Jewish prophets and mitzvahs
Jordan Peele’s blockbuster quotes the prophet Nahum and gives pride of place to the number 613
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Fast Forward Bob Rafelson, the co-creator of ‘The Monkees’ and a producer of ‘Easy Rider,’ dies at 89
The director and producer made the acclaimed “Five Easy Pieces” and regularly worked with Jack Nicholson
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Yiddish שיִער נישט פֿאַרבאָטן׃ גאַסנשילדן אױף אַן „אומגעוווּנטשענער“ שפּראַךNearly forbidden: Street signs in an ‘unwanted’ language
אַן איניציאַטיװ צו אָנערקענען בערלינס אַמאָליקע „ייִדישע גאַס“ װעקט אױף דעם טרױם פֿון ייִדיש װי אַן אָפֿיציעלע מינאָריטעט־שפּראַך
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Fast Forward The ‘godfather of denim’ was an Italian designer whose Jewish father was murdered at Auschwitz
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Theater In a forgotten 20th century masterwork, a Holocaust story from the perpetrator’s perspective
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