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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.

Documentary filmmaker Gayle Kirschenbaum is out with her second film that explores her complicated relationship with her mother, Mildred.

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Isaac Mizrahi: Man on the Runway

by Rahel Musleah

Isaac Mizrahi’s colorful designs are now on view in a first-of-its-kind exhibit at New York’s Jewish Museum.

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Jewface ‘Yiddish’ Dialect Songs of Tin Pan Alley

by Sara Trappler Spielman

Fourteen colorfully illustrated sheet-music covers offer a small but rich glimpse into the vaudeville era.

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Greetings from the Golden Age of Jewish Postcards

by Sara Trappler Spielman

This lovely collection of 140 vintage Jewish postal and elaborate pop-up greeting cards from 1880 to 1915 are on display at the OZ Gallery in New York.

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New Strings Attached, The Latest from Israeli Guitarist Nadav Lev

by Sara Trappler Spielman

Classical Israeli guitarist Nadav Lev has collaborated with young Israeli composers and vocalists to create a new repertoire for classical and electric guitar.

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This Is Where I Leave You

by Jules Becker

Prodded by their non-Jewish mother to sit shiva at the request of their late Jewish father, the hyperdysfunctional Altmans learn that real solidarity brings consolation and redemption.