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Sports How Yiddish inspired the Philadelphia Eagles’ winning play in Super Bowl 2025
The Jewish legacy of the 'tush push'
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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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Culture ‘Blazing Saddles’ marks a half-century of hilarity — and controversy
Released 50 years ago this week, Mel Brooks’ film broke Hollywood taboos while skewering racism
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Culture Leading his star-studded cast of schnooks, Donald Trump is producing his very own ‘Springtime for Hitler’
After yet another indictment, life in Trumpworld is uncannily imitating Mel Brooks' 'Producers'
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Film & TV The surprisingly gradual but unmistakably dramatic transformation of Mel Brooks
Jeremy Dauber's 'Disobedient Jew' demonstrates why the comic and filmmaker's work was markedly different in his early years
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Film & TV Your official Purim drinking game for Mel Brooks’ ‘History of the World, Part II’
A handy, holiday guide for Jewish streamers
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Culture A history of Mel Brooks as a ‘disobedient Jew’
Jewish literature and American studies scholar Jeremy Dauber centers Jewish identity in a new biography of the director and actor
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Culture ‘History of the World, Part II’ is a Mel Brooks comedy without much Mel Brooks — and that’s a good thing
The star-studded Hulu series has a Brooksian sensibility, but fresher jokes
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