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Holy Sparks: Celebrating Fifty Years of Women in the Rabbinate
A showcase of rabbinic achievement, featuring 24 women who redefined Jewish leadership.

A showcase of rabbinic achievement, featuring 24 women who redefined Jewish leadership.
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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.

Phoenix This haunting German movie is set in rubble-strewn 1945 Berlin after war’s end. Nelly, a Jewish nightclub singer, returns from Auschwitz with a bullet-scarred

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A Rock ‘n’ Roller’s Jewish Soul

by Seth Weinstein

Virtuoso guitarist Jorma Kaukonen, great-grandson of a Torah scribe, has spent the last two decades exploring his Jewish roots.

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The Second Abraham

by Rahel Musleah

On November 4, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln penned a brief letter on official letterhead (“Executive Mansion, Washington”) to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton. “I believe

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Hankus Netsky

by Alexandra Lapkin Schwank

With music—particularly East European Jewish music—woven through his family DNA and early childhood, a career rooted in klezmer was bashert.

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An American in Paris

by Renata Polt

This staged version shares many elements with the 1951 film. The Gershwins’ score is glorious, the dancing superb and the plot—an ex-G.I. stays on in Paris after World

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Film Reviews: Of Bigotry, Lies and Love

A young prosecutor in 1958 Frankfurt is determined to expose the atrocities of Auschwitz; a religious faux pas sets off a communal tragedy in a tight-knit, working-class Mizrahi