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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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Oct. 7: One Year Later A different closet: Queer Zionists navigate the post-Oct. 7 dating scene
Pro-Israel Jews have come to expect hostility on dating apps. It can be even worse in person.
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Oct. 7: One Year Later Even in a time of grief and anguish, the show and the art must go on
'Seeking Joy' was originally conceived as a light, celebratory exhibit — after Oct. 7, 2023, everything changed
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How the premiere of ‘Saturday Night Live’ was a great bar mitzvah present
For one self-professed comedy nerd, 'SNL' was its own rite of passage
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Film & TV 8 young Jewish comedians on what ‘SNL 50’ means to them
'Saturday Night Live' may be entering middle age, but these rising Jewish comics are just getting started.
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In Netflix’s ‘Kissufim,’ a story about Israeli life on the Gaza border gains new resonance after Oct. 7
The real-life Kibbutz Kissufim lost 18 people in Hamas’ attack, two years after the movie was filmed
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How a real-life rabbi coached Netflix’s ‘Nobody Wants This’ about making interfaith relationships realistic
The show stars Adam Brody as a good-looking young rabbi who falls for a non-Jewish woman
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You can buy Sukkot gift boxes that say ‘tuchus’ on Amazon
Due to backwards letters, the party favors sold on Amazon are a bit cheeky
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Art Our greatest Jewish sculptor has a passion for life and a soft spot for Mallomars
With a new exhibit at Pace, 83-year-old Joel Shapiro is still creating and still improvising
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BINTEL BRIEF An anti-Zionist Jew wants to know: ‘Am I even Jewish anymore?’
Bintel says disagreeing with other Jews is the most Jewish thing you can do
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A rabbi dates a non-Jew in Netflix’s ‘Nobody Wants This.’ Rabbis in interfaith relationships have thoughts.
'My own relationship to Judaism has not been in any way deterred,' said one intermarried rabbi, 'but rather enhanced'
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Film & TV Netflix finally gave Jews our Hot Rabbi. Too bad every other Jew in the show sucks
Adam Brody and Kristen Bell star in 'Nobody Wants This,' a romcom about a rabbi falling for a non-Jew
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