Stav Ziv is a journalist based in New York City whose work has also appeared in Dance Magazine, The Atlantic, and Newsday. She was previously a staff writer at Newsweek and the deputy editor at The Muse.
Stav Ziv
By Stav Ziv
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Culture How these intimate family photos helped to bridge a Trump-era divide
When Donald Trump was inaugurated, Gillian Laub was with her parents in Washington D.C. “Well, not with them,” Laub says. Her parents were Trump fans there to make America great again. Laub was there to photograph the Women’s March that took place the day after inauguration. But while she was in D.C., Laub also took…
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Culture ‘A lot of Black artists feel that burden — the atypical ascent of choreographer Claudia Schreier’
In the late afternoon and evening light of August, two solo hikers meet by a yellow steel structure in a grassy field. Their faces are obscured behind masks etched with anxiety as they navigate a world inhospitable to Black bodies like theirs. When they happen upon each other, their masks come off as they find…
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Culture Does America still sound ‘beautiful?’ Reinventing a patriotic anthem in seemingly non-patriotic times
Amber waves of grain and purple mountain majesties were hardly top of mind in the late winter and spring of 2020. These were not halcyon days for America. A novel coronavirus outbreak turned global pandemic had knocked the breath out of us. One epidemic exposed and overlapped with another, laying bare the xenophobia, inequities, and…
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Culture How one dance lover is preserving the Jewish history of ballet — one blog entry at a time
Beatrice Waterhouse happened to go to a college that had a notable dance program. She hadn’t taken a ballet class since her early teens, but she figured she’d take a course on the history of dance. It sounded cool — plus, she needed the elective. “It turned out to be a history of basically ethnic…
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Music The meteoric rise of the a capella Hanukkah video — how a holiday force awakened
Editor’s Note: Long ago in a galaxy far away (well, about a year ago), the Forward published this essay about Hanukkah a capella videos. It won the 2020 Rockower Award for excellence in arts and criticism. For seasonally obvious reasons, we are revisiting it here. “Star Wars” fans have been eagerly awaiting “The Rise of…
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Music The Meteoric Rise Of The A Capella Hanukkah Video — How A Holiday Force Awakened
Star Wars fans have been eagerly awaiting “The Rise of Skywalker,” the final film in a nine-part saga scheduled to be released on December 20. Another set of fans — perhaps smaller in number but nothing to scoff at — have been anticipating an entirely different kind of production that pops up around this time…
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Culture One For Each Night: A Guide To Hanukkah A Capella Videos
With nearly a decade’s worth of a capella Hanukkah music videos, where do you even begin? Here are a few of the best to get you started — one (or two) for each night. On the first night, watch “Candlelight” (2010), the Maccabeats’ parody of Taio Cruz’s “Dynamite” that started it all. On the second…
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Culture At Alabama’s Legacy Museum, Echoes Of Holocaust Remembrance
In Berlin, you literally stumble onto the history of the Holocaust. It’s paved into the sidewalks as golden Stolpersteine, or stumbling stones, that gleam bright with that nation’s dark history, spelling out the names of Nazism’s victims. Stroll through the Tiergarten, and you’ll see the Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism…
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