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Music How my story about Nazi-looted art inspired an opera by one of America’s greatest composers
'Before It All Goes Dark' started life as an article in the Chicago Tribune
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Culture The untold story of how Jon Ossoff’s cousin survived the Holocaust and got to the US
He escaped a death march, foraged for food in the forest and placed an ad seeking a long-lost aunt in the Forward
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Art In concentration camps, Jewish artists painted in secret, hid their work and traded art for food
Website launched for Yom Hashoah shows art made by Jews in Nazi camps and ghettos during World War II
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Forverts in English Video: For Yom Hashoah, watch this inspiring program honoring the Warsaw Ghetto fighters
The event featured a talk by Julia Mintz, whose directing has focused on narratives of resistance against unimaginable odds
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Film & TV Just how accurate is the Peacock series ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz?’
Relying on testimony, the series try to correct some of the elements that caused controversy in Heather Morris' book.
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Culture How Maurice Sendak’s Jewishness shaped ‘Where the Wild Things Are’
The children's book author was raised by Jews from Poland. A show at the Skirball in LA explores those roots
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News A German soldier looted postcards from doomed Jews in Poland. 80 years later, his granddaughter brought them back.
“These cards are neither a gift nor a donation. I am simply bringing home Holocaust loot,” Karla McCabe said after driving the postcards back to Lublin
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Theater Hidden in this picture, the murder of 1.1 million Jews
Tectonic Theater Project’s ‘Here There Are Blueberries’ shows the SS enjoying life at Auschwitz
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Forverts in English A Yiddish word I never expected to see on a license plate
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Opinion Anti-Zionism forced us to withdraw from Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
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News ‘No one’s allowed to talk to me’: At UW-Madison, trying — and failing — to talk about Israel
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Fast Forward New poll: 13% of voters who switched support from Biden cite his Gaza policy
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Yiddish ווי אַזוי האָט אויסגעזען דאָס לעבן אין דעטראָיטס אַמאָליקן ייִדישן קוואַרטאַל?What was life like in Detroit’s old Jewish quarter?
אַ נײַע אויסשטעלונג פֿון „הייסטינגס סטריט“ נעמט אַרײַן טשיקאַווע חפֿצים, ווי באַנקעס פֿונעם עפֿנטלעכן שוויצבאָד
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Fast Forward Yael Dayan, Israeli writer, politician, peace activist and general’s daughter, dies at 85
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Opinion Trying to arrest Netanyahu could actually make him more powerful
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Fast Forward AOC pushes New York bill to penalize charities backing Israeli settlements