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Don Was attends the 56th Grammy Awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Jan. 26, 2014.(Christopher Polk/Getty Images)
“Heaven on Earth: Songs of the Soul” is an album that puts 13 Jewish prayers to a mix of African-inspired world music beats and calming folk melodies.
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Adam Sandler plays at a benefit concert in Los Angeles, March 3, 2018. His latest stand-up special has received warm reviews, some say inexplicably. (Jerritt Clark/Getty Images for Artists for Peace and Justice)
Overall, “Bar Mitzvah Boy” isn’t quite as good as “The Hanukkah Song,” which deserves its pop culture pedestal, but it’s a fun addition to Sandler’s Jewish canon.
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The cover of "The Joe Shuster Story: The Artist Behind Superman," by Julian Voloj and illustrated by Thomas Campi. (Super Genius)
The story of these two Jewish comic book legends is dramatic and heartbreaking in its own right, and it’s now chronicled in a graphic novel titled “The Joe Shuster Story: The Artist Behind Superman.”
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Ben Fisher’s album “Does the Land Remember Me?” explores the history of Israel from Israeli and Palestinian viewpoints. (Kendall Rock)
On the album, which comes out Sept. 7, Ben Fisher inhabits a range of characters, from early Israelis nervous about their new country to Palestinians forced to leave their homes to a settler imagining his eventual expulsion from the West Bank.
Read MoreThe ice cream doesn’t contain any THC, the active psychoactive ingredient found in marijuana.
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Billy Joel wearing a yellow Star of David during the encore of a show at Madison Square Garden in New York City, Aug. 21, 2017. (Myrna M. Suarez/Getty Images)
“I had to do something that night,” Billy Joel said. “The president said [after the Charlottesville rally], you know, ‘There’s some good people on that side …’ No, Nazis aren’t good people.”
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The film "Vice" explores the life and times of Dick Cheney, the 46th president of the United States. (Twitter)
Sacha Baron Cohen is coming back to TV, and he’s teasing his new show in an intriguing way: by telling us all it involves an interview with Dick Cheney.
Read MoreHere are some Jewish facts about “Solo: A Star Wars Story” (and its titular character) you might not have known.
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Haim at the Lacoste Beautiful Desert Pool Party in Thermal, Calif., April 12, 2014. (Joe Scarnici/Getty Images for Lacoste)
Meredith Bilski, 26, who works for the food video company Tastemade, said she got goosebumps the first time she heard Haim’s music in 2013. She has since seen them live four times.
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Josh Rosen warms up for a game at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., Sept. 9, 2017. (Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images)
The Jewish kid from Manhattan Beach, Calif., who had a bar mitzvah and is just now barely old enough to legally drink alcohol, was set to make Jewish sports history at Thursday’s draft.
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Abbi Jacobson, left, and Ilana Glazer speaking in Beverly Hills, Calif., July 25, 2017. (Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for Viacom)
The stars and creators of “Broad City,” Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson, said April 12 that the hilarious Comedy Central show’s next season will be its last. That fifth season will air in early 2019.
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