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Culture
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They were a kosher bakery success story — 80 years later, people are still trying to make a buck off their babka
The tale of Schick's Bakery is one of 20th-century ingenuity and 21st-century capitalism
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What American Jews need to know about Germany’s growing far-right antisemitism
The AfD party promises to deport immigrants in language that evokes Nazi beliefs
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Books Tangled up in Boo? Bob Dylan wants this South African horror press to look at his short stories
Crystal Lake Publishing got an unexpected shout-out from the Nobel winner
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How a brilliant Jewish philosopher anticipated the cult of Donald Trump
Walter Benjamin's 1936 essay on art in the age of mechanical reproduction looks particularly prescient today
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The woman who stared down Chris Christie is the star of a new movie — you can stop calling her ‘a feisty Jewish grandmother’
Former New Jersey state Senator Loretta Weinberg is the subject of the documentary 'Politics Is a Mother'
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A world-class scholar and mensch is gone — we can’t let his dream die with him
Paul Mendes-Flohr, the world's foremost Martin Buber scholar, passed away on Shemini Atzeret
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Theater “How can neighbors turn on neighbors?” Descendants of a 1941 pogrom debate the answer
"Our Class," produced by the Classic Stage Company, tells the story of a true and timely Holocaust-era atrocity
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Film & TV A gory horror series with Billy Crystal and Itzhak Perlman? Who is this for?
‘Before’ is too shallow to be smart and too silly to be scary
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Books Trump wants generals like Hitler’s. Does that make him a fascist?
A historian weighs in on the rise of the F word in American politics
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Books Sitting shiva for his wife, an overcaffeinated academic is scalded by grief
Mark Haber's 'Lesser Ruins' brews a potent mix of Montaigne's 'Essays' and electronic house music
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Music How George Harrison, the Beatles’ unsung hero, wrote his own ‘Hallelujah’
Author Seth Rogovoy thinks Harrison is an 'underdog' who deserves more credit
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Would you put jalapeños in matzo ball soup? This Mexican Jewish cookbook says, ‘sí’
New 'Sabor Judio' cookbook delivers recipes with New World flavors and Old World traditions
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