Culture

The Jewish community in Newcastle, England, is shrinking. But it’s getting some unexpected help.

Newcastle, like U.K. communities outside the London “Bagel Belt,” struggles to sustain a dwindling and aging Jewry.

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Yaphet Kotto, ‘Homicide’ and ‘Alien’ actor who was one of the first Black Jews on screen, dies at 81

Kotto was the first Black actor to portray a James Bond villain.

From ‘Mank’ to an Israeli short film, 5 notable Jewish nominees for 2021 Oscars

Sacha Baron Cohen was nominated twice: for his acting in one film and his screenplay for the “Borat” sequel.

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The Jewish highlights of the 2021 Grammys: Breakout performance but no win for Jewish sister act Haim

From matzah tortillas to spicy gefilte fish, Passover food in Mexico is a mashup of cultures

Fusing African and Jewish cuisines, Richmond’s JewFro restaurant was inspired by the George Floyd protest movement

Menachem Kaiser thought he knew his family’s Holocaust history. Then he met Nazi treasure hunters.

This historian is preserving North African Jewish music from a bygone era

Eisenberg’s deli, NYC institution since 1929, closes indefinitely

This Jewish female artist from the comic book golden age was overlooked for decades

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