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The 2017 Kennedy Center Honorees: LL Cool J, Lionel Ritchie, Carmen de Lavallade, Norman Lear and Gloria Estefan pose for a photo at the Kennedy Center Honors Dinner at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on December 2, 2017. (Photo/Flickr-State Department)
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Norman Lear goes to the Kennedy Center, the Pentagon Papers go to the movies

by Nate Bloom December 19, 2017March 23, 2018
From 2015 Hanukkah episode of "The Goldbergs"
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‘The Goldbergs’ do Hanukkah; Franco does ‘The Room’

by Nate Bloom December 10, 2017March 23, 2018
Ezra Miller as Barry Allen aka the Flash in a scene from "Justice League"
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It’s official: The big-screen Flash is a Jew!

by Nate Bloom November 27, 2017March 23, 2018
Ezra Miller as the Flash in "Justice League," which comes out Nov. 17, 2017
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The Jews of ‘Justice League’; Prodigy Alma Deutscher visits Bay Area; and more

by Nate Bloom November 12, 2017March 23, 2018
perserson swings at home plate
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Jews of MLB! Amy Schumer does drama! And a whole mess of new stuff on Netflix

by Nate Bloom October 24, 2017March 23, 2018
British member of the tribe Jason Isaacs is the mysterious Captain Gabriel Lorca on "Star Trek: Discovery," the second Jew to play a Star Trek captain. (Photo/Courtesy CBS)
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Jews on ice, Jews on TV and … Jews in spaaaaaaace

by Nate Bloom October 10, 2017March 23, 2018
Thoros of Myr, the drunken Red Priest on "Game of Thrones," is played by Paul Kaye, who met his wife on a kibbutz.
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Jews of Westeros; ‘Will and Grace’ revival; NFL light on Jews this year

by Nate Bloom September 27, 2017March 23, 2018
Jerry Lewis
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RIP Jerry Lewis; Mel Brooks gets animated; ‘Youk’ scores again

by Nate Bloom August 28, 2017March 23, 2018
A scene from the hit movie "Dunkirk," which was based partly on a book by Jewish author Joshua Levine
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The Jewish historian behind ‘Dunkirk’; most famous Eritrean Jew? and more

by Nate Bloom August 17, 2017March 23, 2018
Former Vice-President Al Gore, center, with Bay Area filmmakers Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, July 24, 2017. (Photo Courtesy SFJFF)
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Rob Lowe, Rodney Dangerfield and Martin Landau

by Nate Bloom August 1, 2017August 7, 2017

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