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Film & TV How Marlene Dietrich saved me — or maybe my twin sister — and helped inspire me to become a lifelong activist
Eleanor Rubin's first brush with fame and activism came unexpectedly during the 1942 Dietrich film 'The Lady Is Willing'
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Film & TV In a Trumpian Hollywood, men honored for playing tortured geniuses, women for playing sex workers
The stars of 'Oppenheimer,' 'The Brutalist,' 'Anora' and 'Poor Things' deserve their accolades, but there's a disturbing pattern here
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Fast Forward It was a historic Jewish night at the Oscars. Why are so many Jews outraged?
Israeli director Yuval Abraham, condemned Oct. 7 and called for the release of hostages. Many said it wasn’t enough.
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Film & TV Oscars 2025: Hollywood crowns a new Jewish queen, and Israeli-Palestinian best documentary winners make waves
Other Jewish wins include 'A Real Pain' and Adrien Brody for 'The Brutalist'
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Film & TV How an intimate and sensitive film about a hostage family’s grief triumphed in Berlin
In chronicling the story of the Beinin family, 'Holding Liat' grapples with personal and national trauma
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Culture How a cross-dressing Gene Hackman heralded a new age of Jewish assimilation in Hollywood
Susan Sontag could have had a field day with Hackman’s campy performance as a straight-laced senator in ‘The Birdcage’
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Film & TV Is ‘A Real Pain’ the Jewish Oscar film we’ve been waiting for?
The acclaimed film avoids the tropes and tragedies that have defined other Jewish Academy Award nominees
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Film & TV How seven siblings survived the Holocaust — and how the next generation is telling their story
In an emotional documentary, Beth Lane highlights the importance of not being complicit.
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Fast Forward Cory Booker has long embraced Jewish tradition. Now he has married a Jewish woman.
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