On Bob Dylan's birthday, his 10 most Je wish songs • For Joan Micklin Silver's birt hday, a trip down Hester Street • Why a 94- year-old filmmaker had to wait four decades f or his latest film to debut

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Culture

Though it looked to the past, ‘Hester Street’ was way ahead of its time

By Annie Berke

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Film & TV

Four decades later, a Jewish iconoclast’s searing film gets its debut

By PJ Grisar

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How Bob Dylan’s greatest song changed music history — a deep-dive into an accidental masterpiece

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Why ‘Hester Street’ meant so much for Jewish women (and for Yiddish)

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