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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.

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

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.

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‘Auschwitz’ on Exhibit in New York

Among the exhibit's most notable displays are a barrack from the Auschwitz III-Monowitz labor camp and an original Model 2 freight car.

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Harvey Fierstein to Play Bella Abzug Off Broadway

by Curt Schleier | JTA

“Bella Bella” is set on primary election night in 1976, when Abzug lost her bid for a New York Senate seat to Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

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Memories of Miami Beach in ‘The Last Resort’

by Gerri Miller

The documentary explores the sandy stretch's Jewish heyday, when it was a sun-drenched haven for one of the largest communities of Jewish retirees in the United States.