Talya Zax
The radical Chilean artist who depicted an America riven by repression and resistance
Rosenfeld’s work was a reminder: You can’t argue a totalitarian government into change, but you can remind its citizens that its control is arbitrary.
Jake Gyllenhaal’s unhinged turn in John Mulaney’s children’s special is the only thing keeping me sane
I’ll say it: Jake Gyllenhaal’s turn as Mr. Music in ‘John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch’ is the single greatest piece of pandemic art there is.
Will Jewish schools finally address their segregationist past?
Jewish day schools are rethinking how they teach students about American racism. Among the subjects they’ll have to examine? Their own history.
The extraordinary artistic devotion of Ida Haendel
If you heard Ida Haendel play violin once, you knew her tone anywhere: the shuddery, overwhelming pointedness she gave to any piece of music.
The JCC theater camp director who changed my life
What sleepaway camp was to so many of my peers, theater camp at the JCC was to me.
Milton Glaser loved New York — and was its greatest observer
Glaser gave the confused energies of post-war America a visual outlet.
Amid battle over St. Louis’s name, Archdiocese defends saint who persecuted Jews, Muslims
The statement did not mention either Louis IX’s crusades in Egypt and Tunisia or the policies he established that forced Jews from France.
St. Louis was named after an anti-Semitic crusader. Should its name be changed?
Some time after King Louis IX returned to France from his first Crusade in 1254, an anonymous French Jew wrote a letter to the king, who would become the only French monarch to ever be canonized in the Catholic Church.
Can Jewish schools meet the challenge of Black Lives Matter?
Jewish schools face a reckoning in the current calls for racial justice.
Abolishing the police is a radical idea — that’s been around for over a century
The sentiments behind police abolitionism originated with late-19th and early-20th century organized labor.