Washington University’s Graham Chapel was the site of a packed house Oct. 12 listening to life lessons and wisdom from a fashion icon. “Speaking of Fashion: Conversation with Diane von Furstenberg” featured the famous designer chatting with Derek...

“What if I told you that your family was murdered for no reason at all? Now, ask yourself, what would you do?”  This heart-piercing question opens the Holocaust revenge drama “Plan A,” which is based on a true story. That special brand...

“Reboot,” a Hulu series that premiered in September, stars two Jewish TV greats — Paul Reiser of “Mad About You” fame and “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” creator and star, Rachel Bloom. Reiser plays Gordon Gelman, an artistic and somewhat...

White Knights in the Black Orchestra: The Extraordinary Story of the Germans Who Resisted Hitler By Tom Dunkel Hachette Books, 464 pages, $32 Last year, Rebecca Donner’s gripping biography, “All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days,” explored...

Television series exploring the Orthodox Jewish way of life have become wildly popular over the past few years. Unchained, a new Israeli drama series now streaming on ChaiFlicks, gives Israel’s Orthodox community the detective-drama treatment to stellar...

On Tuesday night, Missouri Attorney General and Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Eric Schmitt tweeted and then deleted a tweet supporting the idea of a concert tour featuring Ye, formerly known as Kanye West and rapper Kid Rock. The reason this tweet...

On a hot, humid day in late August, Nahanni Rous joined a gathering at Linke Fligl, a queer Jewish chicken farm and cultural organizing project in New York's Hudson Valley. (Linke Fligl is a pun—Yiddish for "left wing.") For the past seven years,...

Back on October 11, Twitter restricted the account of American rapper and designer Kanye West, following an anti-Semitic rant in which he posted to the social media platform that he would go “death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE.” The suspension came after...

True story. When Jessica Radloff, the author of the new book, "The Big Bang Theory. The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series" first saw the show back in 2007, she was not impressed. "I watched the first two episodes of the show and then...

(JTA) – When Rabbi Rachel Timoner’s dad Eli told his family of his decision to end his life, Rachel knew what would soon be asked of her: to officiate his funeral, something he had told her he wanted since she became ordained. This presented a...