January 21, 2025
There is a new documentary about the Jerry Springer Show. Springer was a former Cincinnati city council member, mayor, and television news personality. Springer left Cincinnati for Chicago, where he […]
December 13, 2024
A capella group Six13 has chosen two songs from the cultural phenomenon Wicked for the group’s annual Hanukkah song. The group used the well-known hits Defying Gravity and Popular to […]
November 29, 2024
It can be cliché to call someone a pioneer, but for American film director, writer, and producer Susan Seidelman, it’s true. In her memoir, Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About […]
November 22, 2024
Fanny Brice (1891-1951) was a star in the early 20th century with a five-decade career spanning the stage, silver screen, and radio. In her early days, she was often told […]
November 20, 2024
The cruelty and ugliness of the Nazis and their collaborators is arguably most acutely felt when carried out against children. As The Boy In The Woods opens, Max (Jett Klyne, […]
October 24, 2024
This year, Halloween (the formerly pagan and now American version of Purim, without the awesome we-survived-an-attempted-genocide-and-now-we-eat-triangular-cookies back story) falls at the end of the Jewish holiday season. Some folks like […]
October 23, 2024
“I am writing this as if nothing has happened, as if I’m in an army experienced in cruelty. But I’m young. I’m 14, and I haven’t seen much in my […]
October 23, 2024
In 2006, Yad Vashem published a diary in which 14-year-old Rutka Laskier, a Polish Jew, wrote about her life for four months in 1943, until her deportation and murder in […]
August 27, 2024
How do we renew our faith when it seems lost? How do we praise a G✡d who feels too far away? What if songs of faith are the foundation of […]
April 24, 2024
What do you do with a ton of pottery clay when you’re stoned? What do you do when your creation comes to life? Can you teach him right from wrong? […]