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Critic’s account of classical music after the Holocaust is named Jewish book of the year

Jeremy Eichler’s “Time’s Echo” and James McBride’s “The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store” were among the winners of National Jewish Book Awards for 2023.

You can live in a former synagogue in the East Village for a cool $2.3M

The triplex is described as the “crown jewel” in a property built as Congregation Beth Hamedrash Hagadol Anshe Ungarn in 1908.

‘Barbenheimer,’ ‘Maestro’ and ‘The Zone of Interest’ lead large crop of Jewish-inspired Oscar nominations

“Oppenheimer” earned 13 nods, while “Maestro,” despite blowback from some Jews, scored 8.

Number of living Holocaust survivors is about 245,000, according to new analysis

Following Auschwitz visit, Elon Musk says X could have saved Jews from the Holocaust

A 35-foot challah in NYC attempts to break a Guinness World Record

Norman Jewison, ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ director and lifelong friend of the Jews, dies at 97

Picture book about family that celebrates Rosh Hashanah and Lunar New Year nabs top Sydney Taylor Jewish children’s book award

‘Nazi Town, USA,’ a new PBS documentary, examines the 1930s heyday of Hitler’s acolytes in the US

An actor playing author Isabel Wilkerson embraces an actor playing her husband in a scene from "Origin"

‘Origin’ story: How Ava DuVernay’s new movie connects the Holocaust, slavery and caste

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