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Nobody Wants This? Everybody Should Want This
A rabbi married to a Jew-by-choice reflects on the messages of the popular Netflix series, ‘Nobody Wants This.’

A rabbi married to a Jew-by-choice reflects on the messages of the popular Netflix series, ‘Nobody Wants This.’
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Hulu’s ‘The Faithful’ Reimagines the Biblical Matriarchs
A new miniseries brings Sarah, Rebecca, Leah and Rachel to life.

A new miniseries brings Sarah, Rebecca, Leah and Rachel to life.
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. Explores ‘Black and Jewish America’
The PBS host says his new series is about the past and ‘how, together, we can prevail over the forces of hatred that seek to divide us.’

The PBS host says his new series is about the past and ‘how, together, we can prevail over the forces of hatred that seek to
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Photographer Bill Aron’s Lens on 50 Years of Jewish Life
A new exhibit at the American Jewish Historical Society showcases 50 images captured by the ‘dean of American Jewish photography’ over the last five decades.

A new exhibit at the American Jewish Historical Society showcases 50 images captured by the ‘dean of American Jewish photography’ over the last five decades.
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‘The First Salute:’ An Obscure Jewish Revolutionary War Story
A landmark exhibition at Philadelphia’s Weitzman museum explores the outsized role Jews from a tiny Caribbean island played in American independence.

A landmark exhibition at Philadelphia’s Weitzman museum explores the outsized role Jews from a tiny Caribbean island played in American independence.
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A Showcase of Female Illustrated Post-WWII Books and Diaries
An upcoming Hadassah-Brandeis Institute exhibit presents haunting Holocaust drawings, handmade albums and pictorial diaries from ten Jewish survivors.

An upcoming Hadassah-Brandeis Institute exhibit presents haunting Holocaust drawings, handmade albums and pictorial diaries from ten Jewish survivors.
The Jewish Women Who Pioneered Photography as Art
A new Tel Aviv exhibit presents works from 20 trailblazing female photographers from the early 20th century alongside those of 20 artists active today.

A new Tel Aviv exhibit presents works from 20 trailblazing female photographers from the early 20th century alongside those of 20 artists active today.
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Painful and Piercing Public Art as Therapy
‘The hunger to create and share these works of art is a testament to the widespread trauma that grips Israeli society,’ writes Leora Eren Frucht.

‘The hunger to create and share these works of art is a testament to the widespread trauma that grips Israeli society,’ writes Leora Eren Frucht.
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Anti-Jewish Bias Is Spreading in Arts and Culture
It may be more subtle than a scrawled swastika or a torched synagogue, but anti-Jewish bias in that realm is nonetheless a growing phenomenon.

It may be more subtle than a scrawled swastika or a torched synagogue, but anti-Jewish bias in that realm is nonetheless a growing phenomenon.
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Black and Jewish Identities Converge in Art
A generation of Black Jewish women are using art—paintings, drawings, multimedia works and film—to share and explore their multiethnic perspectives.

A generation of Black Jewish women are using art—paintings, drawings, multimedia works and film—to share and explore their multiethnic perspectives.

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

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.

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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.