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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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Google is answering search queries with AI now. What does that mean for Holocaust history?
Artificial intelligence can often distort facts or be used by bad actors.
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BINTEL BRIEF I don’t like my friend’s boyfriend. Do I have to invite him to my wedding?
Bintel says: You’re the bride, but remember that all actions have consequences
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Film & TV What the world has lost with the loss of Anouk Aimée
With the death of the actress, who was born Nicole Dreyfus, comes the death of an idyllic image of France
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Why Paul McCartney should be known as ‘the Jewish Beatle’
The secret Jewish history of Paul McCartney
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Theater ‘I haven’t really accepted he’s dead’ — scenes from the Stephen Sondheim estate sale
Bidding on Sweeney, la-la-la. Drinking bellinis, la-la-la. Hi-ho the glamorous life!
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Film & TV Why ‘Hava Nagila’ is TV’s new fight song
‘Knuckles’ and ‘The Boys’ recently used the song in some elaborate fight scenes
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Film & TV The secret Jewish history of Dick Van Dyke
The veteran comic actor's eponymous TV show was the brainchild of Carl Reiner and bears a passing resemblance to 'Seinfeld'
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She longed to be a lover and an outlaw; she became a writer instead
Francine Prose's memoir '1974' is a portrait of a relatively brief encounter and an entire generation
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Theater ‘It’s my family play.’ Tony winner David Adjmi talks ‘Stereophonic’
Adjmi's play, nominated for 13 Tonys, is about a band's tumultuous act of creation
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Etgar Keret: AI thinks I wrote a number of novels that don’t exist. So I tried to
I didn't write 'The Flashlight's Journey,' at least originally. But it's never too late
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‘We’re all scarred in different ways’: The next generation of Holocaust testimony
As survivors die, their descendants are finding new ways to keep their stories alive
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