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How a Jewish kid from the Bronx shared the stage with Bruce Springsteen, married Faye Dunaway and became the Zelig of rock ‘n’ roll
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75 years after the birth of McCarthyism, scoundrel time returns to America
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In an Israeli boy’s coming of age story — tween angst, family dysfunction, and a bar mitzvah amidst rocket fire
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A Jewish atheist calls out evangelicals for undermining democracy — and Christianity
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Despite her multimillion dollar fortune and celebrity pals, Ina Garten is a true balabusta
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How a Jewish daughter’s search to find her parents became a book and a play and a movie
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Can we separate Woody Allen the artist from the man born Allan Stewart Konigsberg?
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