OUR LEAD STORY

In a blockbuster film about the Ukrainian Robin Hood, the Baal Shem Tov makes his debut

By Jon Kalish

• Queens College president denounces Muslim student group’s denials of Hamas attacks

• Israel releases horrific eyewitness account of rape carried out by Hamas

• Jewish lawmaker Vernikov holds seat, Kagan loses in closely-watched NYC council elections

• Some Jewish musicians are asking Jewish critics of Israel to stop singing their songs at protests

The overlooked musical that prepared Barbra Streisand for ‘Funny Girl’

By Rebecca Salzhauer

How songs of the Jewish ghetto, camps and secret cabarets became a musical

By PJ Grisar

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