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Film & TV
Dear internet: Having Jews in movies isn’t ‘Zionist propaganda’
Viewers of new films, and old, are missing the plot on the Jewish story
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Everyone can be a war profiteer in Gaza or Iran, thanks to online betting markets
Polymarket and Kalshi let people bet on exactly when and where bombs might fall
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Art Rembrandt has been hailed for his love of the Jewish people — was it all a myth?
A new exhibit at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts digs into the artist's much-scrutinized Jewish interactions, real and otherwise
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Film & TV How the Jewish Museum brought Black film history to new audiences
A revival of the 1970 series ‘The Black Film’ recounts how the museum encouraged intercultural dialogue in the wake of Black-Jewish conflict
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Forever curious, never daunted, Frederick Wiseman sought to repair the world through film
The great documentarian, who has died at 96, leaves behind a legacy of films that offer a moral accounting of the American soul
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Why a forgotten teacher’s grave became a Jewish pilgrimage site
Long after his death, the grave of Rabbi Yechiel Meir Burgeman has become a site of prayer and hope
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Is there life after Lubavitch?
In his memoir 'Brooklyn Odyssey,' ex-Hasidic sociologist Schneur Zalman Newfield turns his gaze inward
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Does Jewish law say it’s OK to lie to the high-roller who wants to manage your rock ‘n’ roll band?
He asked if I was a 'stallion or a gelding' — the real question was if I was a mensch or a mouse
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What Carrie Prejean Boller tells us about Christian Zionism in the US
The former model was removed from the Religious Liberty Commission over her comments on Jews and Israel
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Books Art theft, angels and neo-Nazis force a reckoning with the past in ‘The Tavern at the End of History’
The characters in Morris Collins’ novel turn to history and mysticism to grapple with tragedies
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Why Bad Bunny’s halftime show delighted New York Jews of a certain age
The Jewish love affair with Latin music and ‘Nueva Yol’ dates back to mambo dancing in the Catskills and stories of a shared diaspora
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