It’s nearly Purim — this year, the holiday begins on the evening of Thursday, March 13 — and there’s no shortage of family-friendly ways to spend this joyful Jewish holiday, including costume parties, art exhibits, carnivals and playful tellings of the Purim story. But if you’re looking for something a little bit different, you could bring the […]
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Today is Fat Tuesday — also known as Mardi Gras or Shrove Tuesday — which marks the end of Carnival and the beginning of Lent, a solemn period observed by many Christians during the 40 days leading up to Easter. If you’re not in New Orleans — where Mardi Gras marks the end of weeks of […]
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An endless Passover seder takes center stage in “One Little Goat: A Passover Catastrophe,” by writer Dara Horn and illustrator Theo Ellsworth, award-winners who teamed up for a humor-filled, time-travel graphic novel for young people. The tale of an epic seder — it drags on for six months — joins a new crop of children’s […]
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Fifteen years after its last issue was printed, the Gen X Jewish media darling Heeb Magazine is making a comeback. In its early-2000s heyday, Heeb (yes, like the slur for Jewish people, but with the subtitle “the New Jew Review”) was probably the only outlet you could turn to for an interview with the Beastie Boys, […]
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The joyous Jewish holiday of Purim begins this year on the evening of Thursday, March 13, and and there’s no shortage of festivities in New York City to mark this holiday, which celebrates the triumph of the Jewish Queen Esther and her uncle Mordechai over the evil Haman, advisor to the king of ancient Persia, […]
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“Songs of New York: 100 Years of Imagining the City Through Music,” a new exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York, celebrates a century of New York’s rich musical legacy. The interactive exhibition, which opened this month and is paired with iconic photography from the museum’s collection, spotlights the sounds of New […]
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This month, The New Yorker is marking its 100th anniversary as perhaps the country’s most influential magazine of longform journalism and literary fiction. It has also been a home to pioneering writing by and about Jews. In its early days, under founding editor Harold Ross, the magazine seemed to stand for a certain kind of […]
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In 1983, Barbra Streisand didn’t just break barriers — she sang through them and directed herself into the history books with “Yentl.” Since then, the gender-bending musical has continued to captivate audiences and resonate with a Jewish community where struggles for women’s equality and queer identity are still being fought. And now The Neighborhood, a […]
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Frank London, a trumpeter, composer and one of the most influential Jewish musicians of his era, is bouncing back from a medical crisis that took him out of commission for six months — and forced him to relearn how to play his instrument. London, 66, was successfully treated for myelofibrosis, the aggressive blood cancer that […]
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Since its humble beginnings in 1975, when a Jewish writer and producer from Toronto named Lorne Michaels (born Abraham Lipowitz) launched a comedy variety series originally called “NBC’s Saturday Night,” “Saturday Night Live” has, of course, become a linchpin of comedy television. Over the course of its five decades of broadcasting from NBC’s Studio 8H, […]
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