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Theater Jason Alexander lives out a lifelong dream, playing Tevye in ‘Fiddler on the Roof’
'I wanted to do a piece that is proudly Semitic' said the Tony winner and ‘Seinfeld' star
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Theater A zombie story about the Holocaust? This audio drama makes it work.
The dead come alive as a parable for Holocaust memory in an unorthodox new audio mini-series
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A Jewish, queer ghost story where the greatest fright is family expectations
A conversation with Shelly Jay Shore on their debut novel, 'Rules For Ghosting.'
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BINTEL BRIEF My dear friends’ wedding is on Yom Kippur. How do I reconcile my obligations?
Bintel says don’t take the scheduling personally — and skip the buffet
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Can there be poetry after Oct. 7? A new collection shows how
An anthology, called 'Shiva,' feels like an extension of the biblical scroll Lamentations
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Leni Riefenstahl’s Nazi sympathies ran deeper than she admitted, a new documentary about the director argues
The new documentary “Riefenstahl,” which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, takes a critical look at the “Triumph of the Will” filmmaker
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Why do Ashkenazi Jews name babies after deceased relatives? A rabbi responds.
A person’s soul lives in us when we invoke their values and their life story
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Why are Jews calling anyone who disagrees with them a kapo?
The term is one of the harshest insults between Jews, yet somehow it has become just another political epithet
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In Auschwitz, a modern love story sparks a new Jewish chapter
“I am my own community,” says the first Jew to call Oswiecim home in two decades
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Theater At the nexus of Bertolt Brecht and Bernie Sanders, a young playwright finds his place
An avowed socialist, Jesse Jae Hoon uses his plays to merge the personal and the political
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Art Hidden away for a decade, a beloved Jewish artist’s mural awaits its return to the public eye
Ben Shahn's 13-piece 'Resources of America' at a former post office in the Bronx, has been inaccessible since 2014
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Adam Sandler’s new Netflix comedy special makes poop jokes sentimental
The standup show is a surprisingly moving ode to the power of laughter
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Yiddish אַ זעלטענע זאַך אין פּאַריז — אַ קאָנפֿערענץ בלויז וועגן די ליטוואַקעסA rare event in Paris — a conference just about the Litvaks
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