Culture
Music: Israeli & Jewish Music
Her father said she couldn’t, but Leonard Bernstein said she could — the triumph of a Jewish American conductor
Jewish & Israeli Movies and Television Shows
For Paul Newman’s 97th birthday, his lost cinematic masterpiece
Eat, Drink + Think
Adafina , a Sephardic Shabbat stew
Hamim or adafina: how to make sephardic sabbath stew
Narrowly escaping the Nazis, a wandering Jewish book improbably survives to tell its own tale
In “The Pages,” Hugo Hamilton narrates an escape from the Nazis and the subsequent life of Joseph Roth’s 1924 novel “Rebellion.”
The Nazis looted more than 500 of their paintings; a Jewish collector’s heirs still seek justice and restitution
The Nazis looted more than 500 of their paintings; a Jewish collector’s heirs still seek justice and restitution
Jules Strauss owned art by Degas, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Titian and Gauguin. Then the Nazis came.
She filmed the final days of her father’s life. Here’s what she wants us to know about assisted death.
“We are able to put our pets to sleep and we can’t put ourselves to sleep. The process needs to be streamlined and should be more humane”
Boors, clowns, crazies, weirdos, a pet parakeet — and other hazards of online dating for a mature Jew
In the hilarious and sad “Maybe It’s Me,” Eileen Pollack discusses her Orthodox childhood, her solo jaunt to Israel and her adventures in dating.
How Ady Barkan’s story sparked a movement
“Ady understood intuitively the power of his grueling and emotionally difficult experience to shape a political narrative.”