Is Britney Spears the Esther of our time?
Spears’s legacy seems to echo that of another woman whose sexuality has beguiled and discomfited for millennia: Esther.
In a virtual Purim spiel, a Yiddish revival and a surprising antidote to Zoom culture
One year after the onset of the pandemic, most American theaters are languishing in the dark.
Why does this podcast stand out from all the others?
Lend Sharon Mashihi your ears and she will whisper into them.
Hallmark is not making High Holiday rom-coms, and that’s fine by us
We can do without.
There’s a modern-day golem at the heart of this frozen yogurt romance
Melissa Broder’s sophomore novel insists that it’s possible to make art about eating disorders without succumbing to reverence for extreme thinness.
Why didn’t Jared Kushner denounce antisemitism at Capitol riots? Here’s what Sarah Silverman thinks
“All they were given to signify love was money,” Silverman said of Kushner’s upbringing.
To understand André Aciman, try reading Thucydides
If this interview aired on television, André Aciman would have earned himself a perfect score on Room Rater.
Is everything bagel ice cream good for the Jews?
I tried it, so you don’t have to.
They remember their last big vaccine — for polio
All recalled the sense of relief when the vaccine rendered the disease a fear of the past.
Drop everything — Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella” is coming to Disney+
The film that helped me take a break from being a feminist is coming to a streaming service near you.