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Culture The Melania Trump Opera House won’t change hearts and minds — not even the president’s
A Republican proposal to name the Kennedy Center Opera Center after the first lady misunderstands how art works
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Culture In this Holocaust story, there are few words, no swastikas, no yellow stars — just movement, passion and empathy
With her choreodrama 'Sh'ma,' Suki John transforms a family story into something universal and visceral
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Art How the war changed an artist’s life, his politics — and his painting
Before Oct. 7, Sam Griffin's work was personal and introspective; then he was drafted into the Israeli army
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Culture The towering Jewish critic who taught me to grok art and hate Picasso
After Max Kozloff died at 91, a New York community came together to remember and to mourn
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Culture The woman who saved stolen Jewish art — and the writer who is finally telling her story
The hero of Michelle Young's 'The Art Spy' is Rose Valland — a quiet, relentless French art historian who risked everything to save Jewish-owned art from the Nazis
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Culture A pocket guide to the Jewish grandmothers of Mexico
David Calderon Zonana's 'Pocket Abuelitas' honors the legacy of Mexican Jewish matriarchs
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Music Even the Holocaust could not silence the music of these composers
The recovered voices movement aims to preserve the work of persecuted artists like Viktor Ullmann and Mieczyslaw Weinberg
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Culture After more than 500 days of war, these dancers have been literally and figuratively climbing the walls
It is hard to avoid seeing our broken world in Batsheva Dance Company's enigmatic 'MOMO'
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Film & TV ‘Bojack Horseman’ creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg on his new, ‘unapologetically Jewish’ family affair
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Film & TV Who is Marty Reisman, the Jewish ping-pong star who inspired Timothée Chalamet’s new movie?
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Holy Ground This small, stubborn Appalachian synagogue is defying the odds — and so is its new rabbi
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