Ok, kids, gather 'round. We're at the halfway point of 2026 and it's time for a little midterm check-in. We made all those grand plans six months ago — resolutions, promises and such. How are we doing? A wellness check for your wellness plan Has...

  (JTA) — When Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor was a young girl, her Jewish mother, during an argument, once called her the N-word. “She never used the word with me again,” Pryor, whose father is Black, recalled to the Jewish Telegraphic...

  The living room is a war zone in Yasmina Reza’s “God of Carnage.” The combat and the comedy are both riotous in the current production at the New Jewish Theatre. Christopher Hampton's translation of the original French relocates...

  Gossip is as old as time. Had there been any other humans in the Garden of Eden, I guarantee Eve would have said to them, “Gurrrl you would not believe what Adam wanted me to do last night.” We can thank those two Bible characters for...

  It’s graduation party season. Even if you don’t have a graduate in your home this year, your friends and relatives likely do. It’s so much fun to celebrate the graduate and think about the exciting, limitless future they have ahead of...

  Mel Brooks didn’t just make Jewish jokes. He turned Jewish survival into comedy. That’s the sentence I kept coming back to while preparing for my May 28 talk at the Mirowitz Center called "Why Jewish humor is so darn funny."  This...

Those still wondering “what would Woody Allen say about today’s antisemitism” were treated to what looked like an answer last week in the form of a viral monologue bemoaning the price of coffee in a roast of Ivy-educated anti-Zionism. The...

  For years, Jewish matchmaking worked pretty much the same way: a light bulb went off in yenta’s head, somebody’s mother lit a candle, and two unsuspecting single strangers were told they were “a match made in heaven.” Today? Well...

Unpacked is the #1 Jewish educational media brand for today’s digital generation, presenting insightful, inspiring and nuanced content around Israel, Judaism and all things Jewish. More at unpacked.media America has enjoyed a golden age...

  Nothing I write about here gets more attention than my teen slang decoders. These columns are like dictionaries of what the kids these days are talking about and, more importantly, how they’re saying it. Phrases that are cool one week...

  Kids these days. They don’t know how good they’ve got it with high-tech perks. Millenials, Gen Zers and Gen Alphas get instant gratification and easy media access that we Gen Xers and Boomers never had. However, what we did have shaped...

  Of the great debates in film history, a few dominate. How much of Citizen Kane did Orson Welles really write? Is the auteur a film’s true author? And, the one that will never be resolved, can we separate the art from the artist? In...