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Paul Farber with the Rocky statue

A Jewish expert on monuments on what Philly’s famous Rocky Balboa statue can teach us about memory

Paul Farber, the host of the new NPR podcast “The Statue,” shared some Jewish nuggets from the “Rocky” franchise.

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A Minnesota synagogue built an ice rink — and is inaugurating it with a klezmer skate

It’s so cold that instruments are freezing up at the Twin Cities’ Klezmer on Ice festival.

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Netflix’s ‘You People’ wasn’t funny at all to my Black and Mexican Jewish family

Laughter doesn’t come easily when the jokes only make sense if you don’t exist, writes Cinthya Silverstein.

Israeli docuseries with never-before-heard confessions from Adolf Eichmann comes to Amazon Prime Video

Meyers Leonard

NBA player Meyers Leonard opens up on his antisemitism scandal to Jewish ESPN reporter

After I stopped an attack on the subway, the victim and I bonded over Katz’s pastrami sandwiches

Germany returns 16th-century sculpture to heirs of Jewish owner

A picture book about a heroine of Holocaust memory and 2 fantasy novels top year’s Sydney Taylor Jewish children’s book awards

Turell

The Jewish Sport Report: Orthodox NBA prospect Ryan Turell’s New York homecoming

Actors at a dinner table

Netflix’s ‘You People’ digs into Black-Jewish relations. It also plays a Kanye West song, twice.

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