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Malik Akram, left, holds a gun to Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker in a scene from the "Colleyville" documentary. (Courtesy of Hey Jude Productions)
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With never-before-seen security cam footage, movie brings viewers inside tense hostage crisis at Texas synagogue

Benyamin Cohen by Benyamin Cohen June 24, 2024June 24, 2024
(From left) Billy Butcher (Karl Urban), Frenchie (Israeli actor Tomer Capone) and Mother's Milk (Laz Alonso) infiltrate a convention for right-wing conspiracy theorists in an episode of "The Boys," which culminates in a superpowered brawl set to a rock version of Hava Nagila. (Jan Thijs/Prime Video)
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Why ‘Hava Nagila’ is TV’s new fight song

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Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry visit Auschwitz in "Treasure," a 2024 tragicomedy set in the 1990s. (Bleecker Street)
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Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry take a father-daughter trip to Auschwitz in tragicomedy ‘Treasure’

by Toby Axelrod June 17, 2024June 17, 2024
Donald and Shelly Sterling attend a Los Angeles Clippers game, March 2, 2005, in Los Angeles. (Kirby Lee/WireImage)
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Hulu’s ‘Clipped’ dramatizes the real story of Jewish LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s sordid downfall

Jacob Gurvis by Jacob Gurvis June 14, 2024June 14, 2024
A view of the topographical map inside the "Hollywoodland" exhibit. (Photo/JTA-Josh White, JWPictures-Academy Museum Foundation)
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How I helped bring the story of Hollywood’s Jewish founders to the Academy Museum — where it belongs

Sharon Rosen Leib by Sharon Rosen Leib June 13, 2024June 13, 2024
A view of the topographical map inside the "Hollywoodland" exhibit. (Photo/JTA-Josh White, JWPictures-Academy Museum Foundation)
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L.A.’s Academy Museum to revise exhibit on Jewish founders after criticism from Jewish Hollywood figures

Jacob Gurvis by Jacob Gurvis June 11, 2024June 14, 2024
"Hitler and the Nazis" makes use of colorized archival footage — some from Leni Riefenstahl — as well as reenactments. (Photo/Courtesy of Netflix)
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Is Netflix’s new Hitler docuseries worth watching?

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar June 10, 2024
Jewish pro-Palestinian activists protest Birthright in a scene from the documentary "Israelism" (Photo/JTA/Tikkun Olam Productions)
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‘Israelism,’ the progressive Jewish documentary roiling college campuses, gets digital release with Watermelon Pictures

by Andrew Lapin June 6, 2024June 6, 2024
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The Warriors aren’t in the Finals, but Oakland’s Malika Andrews is

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Paul Simon (Photo/MGM+)
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‘In Restless Dreams’ looks back at Paul Simon’s career, spiritual yearnings

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