What was so special about Helen Rosenthal’s matzoh ball soup?  “Nothing,” her son Phil says.  In the second season of “Somebody Feed Phil,” Rosenthal’s Netflix show, he featured the dish in the New York City episode. In an interview from...

(New York Jewish Week) – A new trailer for the FX miniseries “Fleishman Is in Trouble” — based on Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s debut novel and set on a very Jewish Upper West Side — dropped Tuesday.  Jesse Eisenberg, Claire Danes, Adam Brody...

(JTA) — A Jewish educational consultant who was working for Kanye West’s secretive private Christian school resigned from her post earlier this month in the wake of the rapper’s antisemitic comments. Tamar Andrews, who is also the director of...

(JTA) — Two weeks ago, Ariel Elias, then a little-known standup comedian performing at a club in New Jersey, had a beer thrown at her head from a group of Trump-supporting hecklers who discovered she voted for Joe Biden. After the beer smashed against...

In the early 1980s, older adults had far fewer resources. Community centers offered basics such as a hot lunch, simple crafts and bingo. It’s a much different world now, thanks in large part to Oasis, a national network that began 40 years ago in St....

If you’ve driven by the Morris & Ann Lazaroff Chabad Center on Delmar Boulevard in University City lately, you may have noticed the appearance of five iron sculptures just east of the building. The grassy area was previously a blank slate except...

Stand-up comedian ILIZA SHLESINGER, 39, is on a roll.  Last January, she and her husband, NOAH GALUTEN, had their first child.  On Oct. 2, she was the winning contestant on “Celebrity Jeopardy” and will advance to the “winner playoffs.”  Her...