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‘Denial,’ or the Holocaust on Trial
Rachel Weisz plays famed historian Deborah Lipstadt in this tense new courtroom drama. The scholar must defend herself against libel charges for calling out David Irving, a notorious British Holocaust denier.

Rachel Weisz plays famed historian Deborah Lipstadt in this tense new courtroom drama. The scholar must defend herself against libel charges for calling out David Irving, a notorious British Holocaust denier.
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State of the Arts
High-profile festivals and public venues like the Mahaneh Yehudah market have made Jerusalem a go-to place for Jewish art-lovers.

High-profile festivals and public venues like the Mahaneh Yehudah market have made Jerusalem a go-to place for Jewish art-lovers.
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Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition
Legendary director Stanley Kubrick, known for iconic movies like ‘The Shining,’ is the focus of a retrospective at San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum.

Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, known for iconic movies like ‘The Shining,’ is the focus of a retrospective at California’s Contemporary Jewish Museum.

Inside the Surprise Success of ‘Shtisel’

Few would have guessed that an Israeli television show about an insular ultra-Orthodox family living in the crowded Geula neighborhood of Jerusalem would become a

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Cross-Stitching the Torah

by Rahel Musleah

Through Torah Stitch by Stitch, nearly 2,000 women—and a few men—embroidered the Jewish foundational text in meticulous cross-stitch.

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It’s Ashkenazi vs. Sephardi in This Take on ‘Romeo and Juliet’

by Josefin Dolsten | JTA

A new production of “Romeo and Juliet” puts a Jewish spin on the classic Shakespearean love story.

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In Tel Aviv, Eurovision Planners Say the Show Must Go on

by Sam Sokol | JTA

Many people in Israel believe the escalation was an attempt by Hamas to throw a monkey wrench into Israel’s Eurovision plans.

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Why Jews Should Watch ‘Ramy,’ About a Millennial Muslim

by Gabe Friedman | JTA

Ramy Hassan, the show’s protagonist, is a 20-something living at his Egyptian and Palestinian parents’ house in the northern New Jersey suburbs.

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Teaching ‘Never Again’ to a New Generation, and in Spanish

by Hilary Danailova

Alongside digitally remade Shoah exhibitions are galleries that draw parallels between contemporary xenophobia and racism and the anti-Semitism and propaganda of Hitler’s Europe.