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Culture
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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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Film & TV How about we make the next season of ‘Nobody Wants This’ a little less antisemitic?
The first season of the hot rabbi show made its Jews pretty unlikeable — but maybe it's fixable
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Music For a Jewish jazz great, a 100th birthday is a time for a celebration and a new album
Vibraphone pioneer Terry Gibbs was born Julius Herbert Gubenko in Brooklyn, 1924
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When Robert Moses laid waste to the Jewish Bronx, was he trying to obliterate his Jewish heritage?
A new exhibit about Robert Caro's 'The Power Broker' sheds new light on New York's great creator and destroyer
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Will Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally resemble a fascist one from 1939?
Observers are predicting an event like a well-attended Nazi rally
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Film & TV Happiness and autonomy prove elusive in a Palestinian director’s moving family drama
Scandar Copti's 'Happy Holidays' focuses on an upper-class family in Haifa
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How Al Jolson helped to remake America
A new biography from Richard Bernstein explores the meteoric success of the Jewish performer, while confronting the reviled practice of blackface that made Jolson a star
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BINTEL BRIEF This father is fed up with his anti-Zionist kid — and they’re not even Jewish
Bintel says please don't be like Tevye, who sat shiva for his living daughter
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How the closing of a website for Yom Kippur confessions explains the internet
The death and life of AtoneNet, a living tapestry of Jewish guilt
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Jews didn’t cause Hurricane Milton, but kind of did control the weather in biblical times
As flash floods threaten St. Petersburg, Florida, we consider Noah, the ark and how Jews pray for rain
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Sports 5 Jewish things about the Mets — and why Jewish fans adore them
The connection to the Brooklyn Dodgers, loving the underdog and bein’ amazin’
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New conspiracy theory just dropped — Jews are causing the hurricanes
Marjorie Taylor Greene accused a shadowy "them" of causing hurricanes in order to swing the presidential election
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Yiddish יוביליי־נומער פֿון „ביראָבידזשאַן“ באַערט אַמאָליקע מאָלערס און עטנישע פֿאַרשידנאַרטיקייטAnniversary issue of Birobidzhan features historic artists and ethnic diversity
דער זשורנאַל, גרויס ווי אַ גאַנץ בוך, נעמט אויך אַרײַן טײַגע־לידער און פֿאַקטאַזיע־ווערק.
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Fast Forward Will Scharf, co-founder of ‘Jews Against Soros,’ is Trump’s new White House staff secretary
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Opinion Trump wants prayer in schools. The Bible tells us how dangerous that is
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Opinion Will Trump’s efforts to fight antisemitism help degrade democracy?
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