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The Women Fueling the Rise of #JewishTikTok
From Orthodox lifestyle bloggers and food accounts to comedians and book reviewers, these Jewish content creators have exploded on TikTok.

From Orthodox lifestyle bloggers and food accounts to comedians and book reviewers, these Jewish content creators have exploded on TikTok.
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Barbie’s Jewish Mother
Mattel’s iconic doll isn’t affiliated with a specific religion, but her roots trace back to Ruth Handler, a Jewish mom with chutzpah.

Mattel’s iconic doll isn’t affiliated with a specific religion, but her roots trace back to Ruth Handler, a Jewish mom with chutzpah.
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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.

The chart-topping violinist reflects on music, family and fatherhood as he looks forward to performances for television, Israeli audiences and an expanded family.

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Brief Reviews: Wit, Warmth and Comedy on New York Stage

THEATER Zero Hour Zero Mostel’s ferocious talent, razor wit and volatility come to life in this one-man show set in Mostel’s art studio during an

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The Arts: Timeless and Fresh Rituals

by Rahel Musleah

An exhibit at New York’s Jewish Museum adds layers of meaning to objects from mezuzas to menoras, exploring the particulars of the paraphernalia that ground

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Brief Reviews: Imagination, Sacred and Scary

Tobi Kahn’s Sacred Spaces “I want the viewer to enter into a space that I have created and leave with a sense of inner peace,”

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The Arts: For the Ages-and Aged

by Rachel Schwartzberg

A nursing home is not the most obvious place to house a new, contemporary Jewish museum, but that is one of a number of surprises

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Brief Reviews: How Jews See Themselves—and How Others See Them:

by Judith Gelman Myers

Two Israeli documentaries about anti-Semitism are hitting film festivals and theaters throughout the world. Yoav Shamir’s Defamation pokes fun at Jewish paranoia, questioning the very existence of

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Palestinians, Tunisians and Druze Onscreen

FILMS For My Father aka Weekend in Tel Aviv A young West Bank Palestinian infiltrates Tel Aviv with orders to blow himself up in the

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The Arts : The Rabbi Beneath the Clay

by Dinah A. Spritzer

The Golem legend began in Prague, and an exhibit at the Czech Republic’s premier cultural venue explores the man credited with creating the myth. In