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Why Jewishness — and Kabbalah — are key to understanding HBO’s ‘The Rehearsal’

By PJ Grisar

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Opinion

I went to Israel for my bat mitzvah at the Kotel but an angry ultra-Orthodox mob tried to stop it

By Lucia da Silva

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The Yiddish radio pioneer behind Pete Seeger’s ‘Rainbow Quest’

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