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Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner attend Human Rights Campaign’s 2025 Los Angeles Dinner at Fairmont Century Plaza on March 22, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Human Rights Campaign)
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Rob Reiner, iconic Jewish director and actor, and wife Michele found dead

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One day to see ‘Among Neighbors,’ the local film causing controversy in Poland

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb December 8, 2025December 9, 2025
Yoav Potash films Aaron Tartakovsky outside Gniewoszów City Hall in June 2017 for the film "Among Neighbors." (Sue Barnett/J. Staff)
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Polish leaders attack Berkeley filmmaker’s Holocaust doc, open inquiry

by Sue Fishkoff November 26, 2025December 9, 2025
At left is Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba in "Wicked." At right is the Jewish poet Süßkind von Trimberg, depicted wearing a Jewish hat in the 14th-century Codex Manesse.
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What ‘Wicked’ and the Talmud say about Jewish headwear

Rabbi Daniel Stein by Rabbi Daniel Stein November 26, 2025November 26, 2025
Jerry Ross Barrish in his studio in "Plastic Man." (Screenshot)
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Bail bonds to artwork, trash to treasure: Sculptor Jerry Ross Barrish gets his due

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 17, 2025November 24, 2025
Rami Malek as Douglass Kelley and Russell Crowe as Hermann Goering. (Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics)
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Is ‘Nuremberg’ the Holocaust movie we need right now?

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Gal Gadot wins Genesis Prize for her ‘defense of Israel’ as Gaza war divides Hollywood

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Seymour Hersh in "Cover-Up" (Courtesy Netflix)
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‘I barely trust you guys’: A legendary journalist gets the documentary treatment

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