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Katie Couric reveals that her mother was Jewish in new autobiography

Couric recalls discovering her late mother, Elinor, weeping after some friends made antisemitic remarks, and yet not explaining that she was wounded because she was Jewish.

Three men in a synagogue in the movie "Minyan"

A young, gay Russian Jew navigates ’80s New York in ‘Minyan,’ a new film set in Brighton Beach

The Brighton Beach-set drama, based on a story by David Bezmozgis, paints a fresh portrait of one of Brooklyn’s Jewish communities.

Dolph Schayes named one of the NBA’s 75 best all-time players

Here’s everything to know about the Jewish sports legend.

Benicio del Toro and Léa Seydoux in The French Dispatch

‘The French Dispatch’ is Wes Anderson’s most Jewish film yet

Jack Hughes in action for the New Jersey Devils

The NHL has a historically good set of Jewish hockey players right now

Jewish actor declines Off-Broadway role as Syrian immigrant amid conversation about representation

The author of ‘The Matzah Ball,’ a Hanukkah novel, wants Jews to read more romance

What the Tree of Life shooting revealed about American Jewry

A New York family is reunited with an heirloom Bible thought lost in the Holocaust

Shushani mysterious scholar library notebooks

Israel’s National Library to display notebooks of mysterious scholar who taught Elie Wiesel, Emmanuel Levinas

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