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10 Jewish highlights and controversies from 100 years of The New Yorker

These Jewish writers and artists became the talk of the town.

Jeers for Israel and a top award for a doc about hostages at Berlin film festival

“Holding Liat,” about a hostage’s family, wins best documentary, while Tilda Swinton denounces “state-perpetrated and internationally enabled mass murder” from the stage.

Gender-bending legacy of Barbra Streisand’s ‘Yentl’ is celebrated in Brooklyn

With a performance by drag artist Simply Barbra, a screening by The Neighborhood emphasizes the movie musical’s Jewish, feminist and queer themes.

After fighting cancer, klezmer legend Frank London is busier than ever

Kanye West, back on X again, says he is ‘not under Jewish control anymore’

Netflix’s ‘Apple Cider Vinegar’ features a Jewish-run ‘cancer clinic.’ What is it?

Kanye’s swastika shirt inspires a flurry of defiant Jewish spinoffs

Joaquin Phoenix (left) and Ilana Glazer. (Getty Images)

Joaquin Phoenix and Ilana Glazer among hundreds of Jews who ‘say no to ethnic cleansing’ in Gaza in full-page NYT ad

Macklemore’s latest anti-Israel music video, ‘F—ed up,’ places the West Bank and Holocaust side-by-side

I liked the AI Jews-against-Kanye video — and we should all be terrified of it

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