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In rom-com musical ‘Sabbath Girl,’ an interfaith relationship takes center stage

Set on the Upper West Side and Lower East Side, the musical chronicles the relationship between Seth, an Orthodox Jewish writer and knish man, and Angie, an Italian-American gallerist.

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Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

Malcolm Gladwell’s ‘Revisionist History’ podcast examines the 1936 Olympics and how Hitler ‘gave us the Olympics we have today’

In a conversation with JTA, Gladwell explains Hitler’s lasting influence on the Olympics and gives his take on the veracity of calls to ban Israeli athletes from international competition.

Kamala Harris’ Hebrew merch is taking shape — in the form of a punctuation mark

A popular design is a riff on a pronunciation guide for Harris’ first name — with Hebrew letters at its center.

Yitz Twersky

Meet the New Yorker tracing the 300-year history of the Twersky rabbinical dynasty, from Chernobyl to the Bronx

Max Lazar, Joc Pederson and Garrett Stubbs

For the third time ever, an MLB game featured a Jewish pitcher, catcher and batter at the same moment

Tom Reuveny, Jessica Fox, Artem Dolgopyat and Jemima Montag

All the Jewish medalists at the 2024 Paris Olympics

Why some synagogues are screening ‘Legend of Destruction,’ a 2021 film about the Second Temple, on Tisha B’Av this year

In ‘The Singer Sisters,’ a Jewish folk music family makes it big from Greenwich Village to Lilith Fair

Why these students, ages 16 to 84, spent their summer studying Yiddish in New York

Noemie and Jessica Fox

Australian canoeists Jessica and Noemie Fox join rare company as Jewish siblings to win Olympic gold medals

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