Category: Media & Culture

All the different countries participating in the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool have put out their songs, so it’s time to see what competition awaits Israel’s Noa Kirel. Only 37 countries will take part this year, most of whom are spread out between two semi-finals. Here, Israel will need to compete with 15 other […]

According to Jewish lore, God has been making matches since the creation of the world. Aleeza Ben Shalom has been at it only since 2007 — but the Jewish matchmaker is about to bring what she calls “the most important job in the world” to the masses. As the host of “Jewish Matchmaking” on Netflix, […]

Rabbi Harold Kushner was often identified as the author of “Why Bad Things Happen to Good People,” when the correct title of his best-selling 1981 book is “When Bad Things Happen to Good People.” The book was never meant to provide a definitive solution to the age-old question of theodicy — why God permits evil […]

As a young teenager growing up in Manhattan, Nina Kauder found it nearly impossible to ask her mother difficult questions about puberty or her Jewish identity, for two reasons. Her mother had fled the Holocaust as a child and was, in Kauder’s words, “very tough” to talk to. And by the time Kauder was a […]

For the first time, the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature was given to the author of a book in Hebrew and its translator, in a sign of the award organization’s desire to expand the prize to non-English language works. “Jerusalem Beach,” a book of short stories that draws on Israeli author Iddo Gefen’s background […]

Shows about the Holocaust and a notorious American antisemitic incident picked up several Tony Award nominations Tuesday morning, as Broadway’s biggest honors made room for a sizable Jewish presence. Most notably, a revival of the 1998 musical “Parade,” starring Ben Platt as the early-20th-century Jewish lynching victim Leo Frank, scored six nominations, including best revival […]

Rabbi Michael Wolk was nervous when he stepped foot onto his synagogue’s bimah in May 2021 — but not because his congregation was returning to in-person prayer after a pandemic pause. The jitters were because he was about to debut as an actor, in a role for which he hadn’t auditioned: as the rabbi in […]

The star-studded Met Gala was held on Monday in New York City amid both glamor and controversy, with its theme revolving around the late fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, who passed away in February 2019 at the age of 85.  The Met Gala is held annually on the first Monday in May and marks the opening […]

The family of Lucy Dee who was murdered last month alongside her daughters by Palestinian terrorists in the West Bank met Tuesday with the recipients of organs she donated. Dee, 48, and her daughters Maia Dee, 20, and Rina Dee, 15, were shot dead while driving through the northern Jordan Valley on April 7. The […]

The short life of Anne Frank has inspired generations of filmmakers and television producers. The list of past productions range from “The Diary of Anne Frank” (1959), whose director George Stevens witnessed Nazi occupation as a US army officer, to the Academy Award-winning documentary “Anne Frank Remembered” — featuring the only known footage of Anne […]