Taylor Swift fans have amnesia. So did Jews after Sinai.
Swifties can learn how to process their memory loss by turning to the Talmud
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Music Is this a vision of heaven or is it a Taylor Swift concert?
For one fan, his parents and 80,000 others, a blissful revelation — from one era to the next
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Fast Forward Taylor Swift’s rumored boyfriend, Matty Healy, once gave a Hitler salute on stage and posted a ‘List of Jews’ to Instagram
The pop rock provocateur making headlines has angered Jews, Muslims and anti-racism advocates alike
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Culture After outcry from Jewish fans, Taylor Swift adds dates that don’t fall on Shabbat
‘Looks like I’ll get to see more of your beautiful faces than previously expected,’ Swift wrote
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Music Wait, is that a Hebrew letter on the cover of Taylor Swift’s new album?
Evidence suggests that the artist may have spent one too many 'midnights' studying numerology
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Culture 22 absolutely on-the-mark pop culture predictions for 2022
2021 was a year of new beginnings — not just for our newly reopened society, but also for the coronavirus pandemic, which continues to mutate into increasingly scary-sounding novel Greek letter variants. And so, we end 2021 on a note of uncertainty. In a year like this, when Taylor Swift surprised us with a 10-minute…
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Culture The Grammys highlighted Jews of color — but picked a strange champion for racial justice
In real life, Taylor Swift dates a Brit known for playing Nazis. But in the fantasy realm of the Grammys, she shacked up in an astroturf-peated A-Frame with boychik producers Aaron Dessner and Jack Antonoff; they went on to win Album of the Year for “Folklore.” This was just one vision in a strange, socially…
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Culture Updated: All About Taylor Swift’s Feud With Record Exec Scooter Braun
This is not a “Love Story.” Taylor Swift has alleged that her former label manager Scott Borchetta and his business partner Scooter Braun are keeping her from what would be a career high. Their company has denied the charges and entered the fray with allegations of their own. But this whole thing keeps getting wilder,…
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