Rebecca Salzhauer is a writer and theatermaker based in New York.
Rebecca Salzhauer
By Rebecca Salzhauer
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Theater In Germany, they were superstars — and then the Nazis came to power
'Harmony,' Barry Manilow's musical about the Comedian Harmonists, is a sometimes-labored labor of love
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Culture The overlooked musical that prepared Barbra Streisand for ‘Funny Girl’
Streisand's Broadway debut as a frumpy secretary in 'I Can Get It For You Wholesale' set the stage (literally) for her breakout performance as Fanny Brice
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Culture Rachel Bloom’s new show is all about death — and it may be her most Jewish one yet
The ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ creator is back with a musical comedy about looming mortality and existential dread
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Fast Forward Roseanne Barr addresses controversy: ‘Of course I don’t believe that the Holocaust never happened’
The actress and comedian says that the clip of her denying the Holocaust was a joke taken out of context
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Fast Forward Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: My friend Roseanne Barr needs to ‘immediately clarify her statements’
Barr, who is Jewish, has joined Boteach in speaking out against antisemitism in the past
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Fast Forward Roseanne Barr, in strange tirade, says ‘nobody died in the Holocaust’ but ‘they should have’
Barr, who is Jewish, spouted antisemitic rhetoric and conspiracy theories on a recent podcast. Her son says she was being sarcastic.
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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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News Feeling anxious about wildfire smoke? Here’s advice from a climate change chaplain
Rabbi Ora Nitkin-Kaner on how to 'combat the profound isolation' of fears about climate change.
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Fast Forward Steve Witkoff, Trump’s golf buddy when would-be assassin took aim, said they became friends over a ham sandwich
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News LA and Jerusalem rabbis step in as battle rages over who should run German rabbinical schools
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News Analysis: In twin speeches, expect Trump to present himself as Jews’ secular savior
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