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Broadway stars celebrate Hanukkah in Times Square

“Funny Girl” Julie Benko and other theater stars join Cantor Azi Schwartz in a hopeful holiday message filmed live on the chilly streets of NYC.

Jake Retzlaff, Quinn Hughes, Lindsay Gottlieb, Sam Salz, Jessica Fox and Max Fried

The top 10 Jewish sports moments of 2024, from Jessica Fox’s Olympic dominance to Sam Salz’s historic college football debut

Jewish athletes made history in baseball, hockey, wrestling and soccer this year.

Timothée Chalamet doesn’t talk much about his Judaism. But it turns out his grandfather was an important Jewish writer from the Bronx.

The A-list Jewish actor was named after his maternal grandfather, Harold “Hal” Flender, who wrote about the Holocaust and interviewed many important Jews of his time, including Isaac Bashevis Singer and Abraham Joshua Heschel.

Rebecca Makkai, whose grandfather drafted a Nazi-era antisemitic law, is writing a novel about the rise of fascism

Hanukkah’s arrival on Christmas Day renews ‘Chrismukkah’ dilemmas for interfaith families

Salvador Dali’s little-known series about the founding of Israel comes to a Holocaust museum on Long Island

This ‘Wicked’ version of ‘Adon Olam’ sung by two NYC cantors is proving to be popular

‘The Brutalist,’ the epic new movie getting Oscar buzz, is built from the stories of postwar Jewish architects

‘September 5’ focuses on news, not Jews, in dramatizing 1972 Munich attack on Israeli Olympians

A live game show on the Lower East Side aims to help Jewish singles find their soulmates

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