Netflix loves Orthodox Jews and Mormons — is that good? • The TV superhero only Nietzsche could love • Happy 110th birthday to Jewish songwriter Woody Guthrie

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Film & TV

On ‘The Boys,’ our superhero obsession births a familiar fascist

By PJ Grisar

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Culture

Happy birthday Woody Guthrie, our greatest Hanukkah songwriter

By Thomas Conner

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FAST FORWARDS

Brief items of the News and the Schmooze

Ashes of around 8,000 Nazi victims found in mass grave in Poland

In Jerusalem, a Torah lesson from Biden shows his grasp of Judaism’s quirky calendar

Biden and Lapid jointly pledge to deny Iran weapons, but they diverge on the details

Brooklyn City Council member meets with CUNY chancellor to discuss campus antisemitism

Yiddish Word of the Day

This Land Is Your Land

Daniel Kahn and friends offer a very Yiddish tribute to birthday boy Woody Guthrie.

Culture

My mezuzah, my religion, myself

By Laura Zinn Fromm

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Film & TV

A Jewish girl disguises herself as a Christian to evade the Holocaust in ‘My Name Is Sara’

By Andrew Lapin

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