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Theater Meet the queer Jewish theater nerd who just won the national Jewish Playwriting Contest
Alexa Derman's edgy new script breaks norms for Jewish theater
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Film & TV Elie Wiesel reviewed ‘Oppenheimer’ — and it made him shudder
In 1969 the author of ‘Night’ was shaken by a play about the father of the atom bomb
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Film & TV Alan Arkin and the three pillars of Judaism
Though not an observant Jew, the actor embodied more than a few Jewish values
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Yiddish World Star-studded cast presents show about birth of Yiddish theater, July 11 in NYC
The one-night performance includes songs, theatrical scenes and stories in English and Yiddish with supertitles
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Culture After a serpentine life of spiritual seeking, Alan Arkin discovered his soul in Jewish characters
The Oscar-winning actor tried on French, Jamaican and Puerto Rican accents before he found his true voice
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Theater Young Jews grapple with how to remember what some Holocaust survivors would rather forget
A new play explores the tension between a mandate to 'never forget' and the impossibility of remembering
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Theater In ‘The Doctor,’ a thought experiment about antisemitism goes awry
A Jewish doctor sets off a scandal of identity politics in this new play at the Park Avenue Armory
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Theater How a Jewish scholar became the Shakespeare whisperer helping to make ‘Hamlet’ relevant to our times
James Shapiro first encountered Shakespeare in the classroom, but that's not where he learned to love the Bard
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