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Roman Polanski’s Dreyfus Affair movie ‘An Officer and a Spy’ finally opens in the US

Dreyfus doesn’t shine but the lessons of the affair do, write two scholars about the long-delayed movie.

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The children of the Catskills generation make a new Jewish home in the Berkshires

A new Chabad house in Lenox is the latest sign of a Jewish metamorphosis in a western Massachusetts vacationland.

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Love is in the air — and on the Jewish calendar

How NYC is celebrating Tu B’Av, the Jewish day of love, which begins Friday night.

Inside one man’s quixotic quest to preserve 200,000 Israeli tchotchkes

Bella abzug speaking into a microphone

How NYC remembers ‘Battling’ Bella Abzug, the pioneering politician and feminist icon

The Jewish producer of Broadway hits like ‘Hamilton’ and ‘Rent’ shares the secrets of his success

The subject was Gaza, but Jon Stewart and Peter Beinart had a whole lot to say about Judaism

An album cover features the fig tree, a native plant signifying the security of home; the keys, a symbol and instrument of return; the fishnet pattern (found in the keffiyeh), a connection to the sea; water, source of life, in the droplets and waves; the stars, witnesses over us all; and the shofar, used as a wake-up call.

A new collection of Yiddish songs casts Israel as the ‘evildoer’ in Gaza

A photo of regina spektor in a purple dress playing a piano and singing into a mic.

Regina Spektor responds to pro-Palestinian protester at concert: ‘You’re just yelling at a Jew’

Tom Lehrer, satirist who sang about ‘Hanukkah in Santa Monica,’ dies at 97

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