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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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Fast Forward Suspect in Berlin Holocaust memorial stabbing sought to kill Jews
The attack followed other recent Israel-related incidents in the German capital
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Culture From plague times to Trump’s executive orders, Jews and immigrants have been accused of spreading disease
Trump is expected to issue an order would term migrants public health threats to rationalize closing borders
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Opinion Eric Adams said he’d ‘collaborate’ on immigration enforcement — so did Vichy France during WWII
New York's mayor has more in common with Marshal Pétain than a telling word choice
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Fast Forward Marian Turski, Holocaust survivor and co-founder of Warsaw’s landmark Jewish museum, dies at 98
The journalist and historian proposed an Eleventh Commandment: “Do not be indifferent"
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News The forgotten U.S. plan to send Jewish refugees to Alaska — and why it matters today
The Last Frontier is now home to about 6,000 Jews.
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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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Film & TV How MAD magazine, family ghosts and censorship made Art Spiegelman an anti-fascist artist
A new documentary about the ‘Maus’ author reveals his influences, and what keeps him up at night
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Yiddish הערט די פּרעכטיקע לידער פֿון דער „מגילה פֿון איציק מאַנגער“Listen to the delightful songs of the ‘Megillah by Itsik Manger’
די אַכצן לידער ווערן דאָ געזונגען פֿון די ערשטקלאַסישע אַרטיסטן — דער משפּחה בורשטיין
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Opinion A Pentagon official spewed antisemitism. Her words about child victims of Oct. 7 are even more hateful
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Yiddish World ‘Shtisel’ spin-off ‘Kugel’ richly portrays a diasporic Hasidic community
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Art Why Queen Esther was the star in the age of Rembrandt’s Amsterdam
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