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Kristen Bell as Joanne and Adam Brody as Noah in "Nobody Wants This." (Stefania Rosini/Netflix)

How a real-life rabbi coached Netflix’s ‘Nobody Wants This’ about making interfaith relationships realistic

The show stars Adam Brody as a good-looking young rabbi who falls for a non-Jewish woman.

By Shira Li Bartov September 26, 2024 11:12 am

Museum of the Bible unveils world’s ‘oldest Jewish book’ in new exhibit

The handwritten manuscript of prayers and poems dates back 1,300 years and originates with Jews who lived in a Buddhist civilization in what is now Afghanistan.

September 24, 2024 5:42 pm

For Jewish White Sox fans, this season has made a bad year even worse

The White Sox are about to lose more games than any team in modern history.

September 23, 2024 6:36 pm

Albany Book Festival cancels panel with Jewish moderator, citing ‘impasse’ over her Zionism

By Jackie Hajdenberg September 20, 2024 3:32 pm

Singer, composer and anthropologist Galeet Dardashti.

How Galeet Dardashti is reimagining a Persian High Holiday musical tradition

By Lisa Keys September 20, 2024 11:38 am

California passes law to help Holocaust survivors and heirs recover Nazi-looted art

By Jackie Hajdenberg September 19, 2024 6:01 pm

The deadly pager operation in Lebanon is no laughing matter. Or is it?

By Andrew Silow-Carroll September 19, 2024 7:48 am

‘The Hobbit’ actor Richard Armitage stars in ‘The Boy in the Woods,’ a film based on a child’s true story of surviving the Holocaust

By Julia Gergely September 18, 2024 4:42 pm

Jewish influencer Ellie Zeiler swaps jet-setting for Jerusalem, taking her 20M followers along

By Jackie Hajdenberg September 17, 2024 12:34 pm

Four Questions

‘It was a paradise of security’: 2 writers reflect on growing up Jewish in Queens in the 1970s

By Risa Doherty September 16, 2024 5:06 pm

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How a real-life rabbi coached Netflix’s ‘Nobody Wants This’ about making interfaith relationships realistic

Museum of the Bible unveils world’s ‘oldest Jewish book’ in new exhibit

For Jewish White Sox fans, this season has made a bad year even worse

Albany Book Festival cancels panel with Jewish moderator, citing ‘impasse’ over her Zionism

How Galeet Dardashti is reimagining a Persian High Holiday musical tradition

California passes law to help Holocaust survivors and heirs recover Nazi-looted art

The deadly pager operation in Lebanon is no laughing matter. Or is it?

‘The Hobbit’ actor Richard Armitage stars in ‘The Boy in the Woods,’ a film based on a child’s true story of surviving the Holocaust

Jewish influencer Ellie Zeiler swaps jet-setting for Jerusalem, taking her 20M followers along

‘It was a paradise of security’: 2 writers reflect on growing up Jewish in Queens in the 1970s

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