This article is part of a project examining how Oct. 7 and its aftermath have changed the Jewish world. You can see the complete project here. ((JR)) — Dictionaries are remarkably consistent when it comes to the definition of “Zionism”: Merriam-Webster, for example, defines the term as “an international movement originally for the establishment of a […]
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This article is part of a series examining how Oct. 7 and its aftermath have changed the Jewish world. You can see the complete project here. More than 700 readers responded to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s survey asking about what has changed in their lives over the last year. In extended comments, they described wrenching […]
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Author, publisher and “bookfluencer” Zibby Owens didn’t set out to be a public face of the fight against antisemitism. But like just about everything else, that all changed following Hamas’ attack on Israel on Oct. 7. “Before October 7, I hadn’t experienced much antisemitism. Just a sprinkle of sea salt on a big buffet,” Owens […]
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In Raleigh, North Carolina, a field will display 1,200 Israeli flags. In New Orleans, a local artist will paint silhouettes of hostages. In the Bay Area, a rabbi is leaving her synagogue’s sanctuary open all day so congregants can use the space for personal reflection. These are just a few of the hundreds of Oct. […]
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Jewish actor Michael Zegen has made a name for himself playing some less-than-savory Jewish New Yorkers, like Midge Maisel’s philandering husband Joel in the Amazon hit “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” and gangster Bugsy Siegel in HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire.” Now, in his first-ever leading role on the silver screen, he’s playing a hustling New York City […]
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For Jews around the world, Oct. 7 and its aftermath have presented a rupture of nearly unprecedented proportions. Jews have reconsidered their friendships, their beliefs, their attitudes about Israel, their place in the broader world — even the prayers and practices that have made up Jewish traditions for thousands of years. In this series, we […]
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This article is part of a series examining how Oct. 7 and its aftermath have changed the Jewish world. You can see the complete project here. Wars and crises shape language, in both profound and mundane ways. World War II gave us terms like radar, spam — and genocide. Military euphemisms like “collateral damage” (the […]
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As a gender historian and scholar of intermarriage, I binge-watched the new Netflix series “Nobody Wants This” with a combination of foreboding and optimism. Depictions of romances between Jewish men and Christian women have been ubiquitous in popular culture since “The Jazz Singer” in 1927 as Jewish men in Hollywood depicted their own lived experiences. […]
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As the one-year anniversary of Oct. 7 approaches, the themes of coping with trauma and loss explored in the play “The Goldberg-Variations” are just as relevant now as they were when the play debuted in Vienna more than three decades ago. Written by renowned Hungarian Jewish playwright George Tabori, the backstage comedy set in Jerusalem […]
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“Nobody Wants This,” a rom-com Netflix series starring Adam Brody as a charming Los Angeles rabbi who falls for a blond, agnostic sex and dating podcaster played by Kristen Bell, is based on a true story — kind of. Erin Foster, the creator of the show, is a blond Los Angeles native who found her […]
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