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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.

Arts

Polish Group Kroke Out with “Ten”

by Seth Weinstein

The trio's new tracks contain surprises, mood swings, ethereal settings and energetic dance music.

Arts

Anti-Semitism and Yiddish Theater, on Display

by Sara Trappler Spielman

Three New York exhibits feature memorabilia from the Yiddish stage; alarming and graphic Antisemitica; and book art inspired by Israeli poet Rahel Bluwstein.

Arts

The Mossad’s Covert Capture of Eichmann, on Display

by Bob Abelman

A traveling exhibit tells the story of the capture and subsequent trial of Nazi officer Adolf Eichmann.

Arts

Big Sonia: A Grandmother-Granddaughter Conversation

by Eric Berger

Documentarian Leah Warshawski captures the story and impact of her larger-than-life grandmother in the film Big Sonia.

Arts

Lainie Kazan

by Ryan Torok

Kazan began her career more than five decades ago as the understudy to Barbra Streisand in the Broadway version of "Funny Girl."

Arts

Colliding Dreams

by Tom Tugend

In Colliding Dreams, filmmakers Joseph Dorman and Oren Rudavsky largely succeed in the task of compressing into 134 minutes the history of Zionism.

Arts

Arabic Movie

by Judith Gelman Myers

Part nostalgia, part criticism, Arabic Movie explores the cultural and political of the Arabic feature film broadcasted in the early days of Israel's television industry.

Arts

Ave Maria

by Tom Tugend

Some difficult problems arise when Moshe, an Orthodox settler driving his family to their West Bank home on a late Friday afternoon, disables his car

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