Samuel Eli Shepherd is a culture journalist and a digital reporting and editing intern at the Forward. He can be reached at [email protected].
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By Samuel Eli Shepherd
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Books A Jewish family’s trauma is the villain in an epic Israeli-Palestinian love story
Zeeva Bukai on how a tragedy drives intergenerational conflict in her debut novel, 'The Anatomy of Exile'
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News When fire spread to West Hollywood, a rabbi’s mom chose to grab candlesticks
“Physical things come and go, but the spiritual is what keeps us going,” her son says.
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Theater How a special Yiddish word and a phone company inspired Delia Ephron’s new Broadway play
A bashert team, including Daryl Roth and Susan Stroman, helped bring Ephron's memoir 'Left on Tenth' to Broadway
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Culture In a first-ever Hanukkah doughnut contest, New York bakers battle for best in dough
A first-of-its-kind 'doughnut duel' saw traditional and new recipes duke it out
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News What is the Ohel, and why is it one of the most popular Jewish sites in the world?
Eric Adams and president-elect Donald Trump visited the Rebbe’s resting place earlier this year.
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Culture Jewish New Yorkers sit shiva for Absolute Bagels
Longtime Upper West Side residents came to pay their respects after the store’s unexpected closure
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Film & TV Hallmark’s ‘Leah’s Perfect Gift’ gets interfaith relationships right — and a whole lot else wrong
The new Hallmark film about a Jewish woman celebrating Christmas is more sensitive than you might imagine
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Theater How Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner became “a match made in meshugas”
A new play, 'Gene & Gilda,' tells the story of a Jewish Hollywood power couple’s rocky romance
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