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Idina Menzel Dishes on ‘Redwood’ and Jewish Ethics
The Tony award-winning actor and singer is now starring in what may be the most positive Jewish play on Broadway in decades.

The Tony award-winning actor and singer is now starring in what may be the most positive Jewish play on Broadway in decades.
Arts
Painful and Piercing Public Art as Therapy
‘The hunger to create and share these works of art is a testament to the widespread trauma that grips Israeli society,’ writes Leora Eren Frucht.

‘The hunger to create and share these works of art is a testament to the widespread trauma that grips Israeli society,’ writes Leora Eren Frucht.
Wider World
The Women Fueling the Rise of #JewishTikTok
From Orthodox lifestyle bloggers and food accounts to comedians and book reviewers, these Jewish content creators have exploded on TikTok.

From Orthodox lifestyle bloggers and food accounts to comedians and book reviewers, these Jewish content creators have exploded on TikTok.
Arts
Barbie’s Jewish Mother
Mattel’s iconic doll isn’t affiliated with a specific religion, but her roots trace back to Ruth Handler, a Jewish mom with chutzpah.

Mattel’s iconic doll isn’t affiliated with a specific religion, but her roots trace back to Ruth Handler, a Jewish mom with chutzpah.
Arts
Holy Sparks: Celebrating Fifty Years of Women in the Rabbinate
A showcase of rabbinic achievement, featuring 24 women who redefined Jewish leadership.

A showcase of rabbinic achievement, featuring 24 women who redefined Jewish leadership.
Arts
Anti-Jewish Bias Is Spreading in Arts and Culture
It may be more subtle than a scrawled swastika or a torched synagogue, but anti-Jewish bias in that realm is nonetheless a growing phenomenon.

It may be more subtle than a scrawled swastika or a torched synagogue, but anti-Jewish bias in that realm is nonetheless a growing phenomenon.
Arts
Black and Jewish Identities Converge in Art
A generation of Black Jewish women are using art—paintings, drawings, multimedia works and film—to share and explore their multiethnic perspectives.

A generation of Black Jewish women are using art—paintings, drawings, multimedia works and film—to share and explore their multiethnic perspectives.

Inside the Surprise Success of ‘Shtisel’

Few would have guessed that an Israeli television show about an insular ultra-Orthodox family living in the crowded Geula neighborhood of Jerusalem would become a

Arts

Cross-Stitching the Torah

by Rahel Musleah

Through Torah Stitch by Stitch, nearly 2,000 women—and a few men—embroidered the Jewish foundational text in meticulous cross-stitch.

Arts

It’s Ashkenazi vs. Sephardi in This Take on ‘Romeo and Juliet’

by Josefin Dolsten | JTA

A new production of “Romeo and Juliet” puts a Jewish spin on the classic Shakespearean love story.

Arts

In Tel Aviv, Eurovision Planners Say the Show Must Go on

by Sam Sokol | JTA

Many people in Israel believe the escalation was an attempt by Hamas to throw a monkey wrench into Israel’s Eurovision plans.

Arts

Why Jews Should Watch ‘Ramy,’ About a Millennial Muslim

by Gabe Friedman | JTA

Ramy Hassan, the show’s protagonist, is a 20-something living at his Egyptian and Palestinian parents’ house in the northern New Jersey suburbs.

Arts

Teaching ‘Never Again’ to a New Generation, and in Spanish

by Hilary Danailova

Alongside digitally remade Shoah exhibitions are galleries that draw parallels between contemporary xenophobia and racism and the anti-Semitism and propaganda of Hitler’s Europe.