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Theater They created a musical about the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Today’s activists are listening
"We Live in Cairo," now playing at the New York Theatre Workshop, takes on new resonance in light of pro-Palestinian protests
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Theater “How can neighbors turn on neighbors?” Descendants of a 1941 pogrom debate the answer
"Our Class," produced by the Classic Stage Company, tells the story of a true and timely Holocaust-era atrocity
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Theater Ex-hasidic, trans and brutally honest, Lili Rosen invites you to her ‘Second Circumcision’
The one-woman show is a funny, poignant account of the performer’s transition
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Culture How James Earl Jones became a true friend of Jewish artists and the Jewish people
The legendary actor worked with such luminaries as Stanley Kubrick and Joe Papp
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Theater A zombie story about the Holocaust? This audio drama makes it work.
The dead come alive as a parable for Holocaust memory in an unorthodox new audio mini-series
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Theater At the nexus of Bertolt Brecht and Bernie Sanders, a young playwright finds his place
An avowed socialist, Jesse Jae Hoon uses his plays to merge the personal and the political
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Culture Preserving Mexican Syrian Jewish traditions in a world on the verge of collapse
Playwright Clairette Atri Mizrahi wants to rejuvenate a shuttered café and her grandmother's cooking
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Theater ‘Once Upon a Mattress’ started at a Jewish summer camp. Now it’s making a rowdy return to Broadway
A look into the socialist Jewish summer camp origins of the campy musical theater hit
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