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Mexican Jewish children at the Monte Sinai school, established in 1943 on Zacatecas Street in Mexico City by Jews from Damascus, Syria. (Zihronot Archive/Monte Sinai Community)
Roma used to be an important center of Mexican-Jewish life: Thousands of Syrian Jews lived in the area from the 1920s to the 1950s, creating a small version of their Middle Eastern homeland within its streets and plazas.
Read MoreThe Netflix series features Rachel Brosnahan as a Jewish stay-at-home mom in the 1950s who decides to try her luck as a stand-up comedian. Tony Shalhoub plays her father.
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Amos Oz speaks at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif., May 5, 2015. (Jason Kempin/Getty Images)
At Penn Station, Oz patiently answered my questions while making ardent observations of an Orthodox family nearby.
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“Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II,” includes 18 tracks composed by Jews in the Soviet Union and Ukraine. (Courtesy of Six Degrees Records)
Following an unimaginable series of unlikely events, these rare and revealing songs, presumed lost to history, were rediscovered and have been brought back to life in “Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II.”
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"Fun Home" at Baltimore Center Stage -- Jeffry Denman, Molly Lyons and Andrea Prestinario (left to right) (Photo by Bill Geenen)
Simultaneously funny and tragic, “Fun Home” will resonate with anyone who has looked back on their childhood and wondered what was really going on with their parents and how their upbringing impacted their adulthood.
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Abbi Jacobson, left, and Ilana Glazer star in “Broad City.” (Jason Nocito; “Seinfeld” photo: George Lange/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images; Woody Allen photo: Screenshot from “Annie Hall”; collage by Emily Burack/70 Faces Media)
Abbi and Ilana seem not to know the meaning of the word shpilkes. This winsome duo is all chutzpah, in part because of their excellent friendship. They’ve got each other’s back in every (mis)adventure.
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William and Selma Kurz riding in a rickshaw in Shanghai in the early 1940s. (Photo courtesy of Jewish Museum of Maryland)
By the time of the Chinese Communist Revolution in the late 1940s, virtually all the Jews of Shanghai had emigrated.
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Erin Mandras says she wrote her new book "Austin's Allergies" to help kids and adults understand the seriousness and complexities of food allergies. (Handout photo)
“Austin’s Allergies” tells the story of Austin Mandras, from the early stages of his diagnosis to how to help keep him safe.
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A Grammy Award nominee dubbed "the Godfather of Americana," David Bromberg will perform at Rams Head On Stage in Annapolis on Feb. 23. (Provided)
In a career spanning more than a half century and featuring cameos from Bob Dylan and a pair of Beatles, David Bromberg continues his journey of roots music exploration.
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