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The deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire inspires a contemporary composer

Julia Wolfe has passed the Greenwich Village site of the 1911 tragedy for years and says the subject “is really close to my heart.”

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How ‘Broad City’ redefined American Jewish identity

Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer have taken us from shpilkes to chutzpah.

40 years ago, an American miniseries changed the way Germans thought about their history. Now ‘Holocaust’ is being shown there again.

The four-part drama, starring a young Meryl Streep, burned itself into the consciences of its millions of German viewers.

How these Jewish women launched challah baking businesses and got thousands of Instagram followers along the way

YIVO anarchism

A YIVO conference finds a new audience for Yiddish anarchism

Ruth Bader Ginsberg documentary is nominated for an Oscar

How the Forward ran low on cash — and miracles — before ending its print edition and laying off its top editors

This shy London dad rocked iTunes 2 weeks after he died of cancer

‘The Invisibles’ tells the story of Jews who somehow survived in Nazi Berlin

Let’s make Tu b’Shevat a day to demand action on climate change

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