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Tisha B’Av invites you to imagine how everything could go wrong

Relating to the despair over a 2,000-year-old catastrophe is an exercise in empathy, writes a scholar of ancient Judaism.

The Jewish story behind ‘Oppenheimer,’ explained

The pioneering physicist’s moral worldview and politics were shaped by a complicated relationship with his Jewishness and a hatred of the Nazis.

Why Jews are flocking to Loop, a new dating app where users do the matchmaking

Referring to the time-honored Jewish tradition of matchmaking, “Loop is bringing traditional Jewish wisdom to the world at large,” said one of the app’s three Jewish founders.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 19: Noah Schnapp attends the 26th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on January 19, 2020 in Los Angeles, California.

Jewish ‘Stranger Things’ star Noah Schnapp visits Israel

SAG strike puts its brash Jewish president, Fran Drescher, squarely in the spotlight

NBC releases unaired ‘American Ninja Warrior’ footage of Orthodox competitor cut after Shabbat opt-out

Alan Palmer wrote and stars in "Chanteuse: A Survival Musical." (Russ Rowland)

A new musical spotlights the Nazi persecution of LGBTQ+ people

Anna Sokolow Way honors fierce Jewish dancer and choreographer

Jewish camp alums cheer ‘Theater Camp,’ Ben Platt movie shot at former Kutz Camp

Broadway had a very Jewish year, but there is more to the Jewish story than antisemitism and the Holocaust

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