Last Sunday, the Jewish Women’s Archive held an advance screening of the film adaptation of Judy Blume’s Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret, and it felt like a party. Not only because it was JWA’s first big public event since Covid, not only...

(JTA) — 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...

(JTA) — 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...

Have you heard the one about Moses who—having just led the Israelites out of Egyptian bondage to miraculous freedom, culminating in the waters of the Red Sea splitting—nonetheless impressed his father-in-law so little with his judicial acumen...

Succession has a great mind for history, and nothing proves it quite so well as a historically illiterate Holocaust meme from Sunday’s episode. The meme in question appeared during a presentation on Investor Day, as Kendall Roy aimed...

(JTA) — The prize dubbed the “Jewish Nobel” will be going to Barbra Streisand later this year, in a return to its tradition of honoring Jewish celebrities for their lifetime of achievements. The iconic actor and singer is getting the Genesis...

Jews and their digestive problems are the subject of countless bad standup comedy routines, but a recent study may have identified exactly why so many Jews are afflicted. For years, scientists have known that people of Ashkenazi Jewish descent...

(JTA) — Actor Steve Guttenberg has had the kind of career that put him in touch with nearly every trend in Hollywood. There were prestige films like “Diner” and “Cocoon” and the lighter but wildly successful fare like the first four movies in...

Dana Bash, the CNN reporter who grew up going to Jewish summer camp and hosted a show last year about antisemitism, will take over as anchor of the network’s flagship political program. In a statement released Wednesday, the cable news channel...

Jerry Springer, the ex-mayor of Cincinnati who gained a national profile with his eponymous, fight-filled TV talk show, has died at 79 after a “brief illness,” according to TMZ. Springer was born in the underground Highgate train...

(JTA) — A new drama on Netflix centered on a haredi Orthodox family that runs a business in Antwerp’s famed diamond district hit the platform on Friday and is drawing comparisons to the hit Israeli series “Shtisel.” “Rough Diamonds,” a...

Spoilers for all seasons of The Mandalorian lie ahead. This season of The Mandalorian started with a journey to a space mikveh and ended with a rekindling of the temple menorah. OK, the show’s creators call the mikveh “the Living Waters”...