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Culture, Arts & Media
Writers, performers, artists, languages, foodways, and cultural institutions that shaped Jewish public life.
Black Jews in Africa
Why One Label Covers Very Different Histories
Capital Jewish Museum
How Washington Put Jewish History in the Civic Center
Cholent, Hamin, and Dafina
Why Jews Built a Sabbath Stew
Crypto-Jews of New Mexico
History, Memory, and the Debate Over Hidden Ancestry
Cuba's Jews
A Small Community Shaped by Exile, Revolution, and Return
Egg Creams
The New York Jewish Drink That Never Needed Egg or Cream
Egypt Is Restoring Synagogues. Can Jewish Heritage Survive Without...
Egypt has restored major synagogues and speaks more openly than it once did about Jewish...
Eric Sanders
The Painter Who Treated a Second Career as Serious Work
From 'Hatikvah' to Koolulam
Why Collective Singing Still Matters in Israel
From 'Light a Candle' to 'Toy'
How Israel Remade Its Eurovision Sound
Herb and Dorothy Vogel
Modest Salaries, Major Art Collection
Herbert Lust
The Collector Who Bought What He Loved
How Orthodox Jewish Music Built a Crossover Lane
Orthodox Jewish music did not break into wider culture through one style or one ideology.
Israeli Pro Wrestling
From Rafael Halperin to Better Together
Ivry Gitlis
Maverick Violinist and the Refusal of Clean Lines
JIMENA
JIMENA works to put Mizrahi and Sephardi history into Jewish education, challenging...
Jewish American Heritage Month
What It Is, How It Started, and Why May Matters
Jewish Artists Who Changed Modern Visual Culture
Painting, Photography, Cartooning, and the Public Life of Images
Jewish Baseball
How the Game Became Part of American Jewish Memory
Jewish Dance Beyond the Hora
How Diaspora Steps Kept Moving
Jewish Fencing
Jewish fencing history includes achievement, social prestige, and the hard moral case of...
Jewish Food
Why There Is No Single Top 8
Jewish Institutions That Shape Public Life
Synagogues, Schools, Courts, Museums, and the Organizations That Hold a Community Together
Jewish Languages Beyond Hebrew, Yiddish, and Ladino
Jews did not create only one diaspora language or two Across North Africa, the Middle...
Jewish Majorca
How a Silenced History Returned to Public View
Jewish Museums in America
Memory, Public History, and the Institutions That Turn Heritage Into Civic Culture
Jewish Writers Who Changed Modern Literature
Fiction, Essays, Yiddish, Hebrew, and the Argument Between Memory and Style
Jewish-American Delis
Why They Mattered Beyond the Sandwich
Jews and Muslims in Tunisia
Djerba, El Ghriba, and Coexistence Under Pressure
Jews in Sports
Why the Stereotype Never Matched the Record
Klezmer Explained
The Wedding Music That Became a Global Jewish Sound
Kosha Dillz
Rapper and Jewish Identity Loud on Purpose
Ladino, Explained
The Jewish Language That Traveled After 1492 and Still Sings
Lehrhaus
How a Jewish Tavern Turned Learning Into a Night Out
Manchester's Jewish Community
How One British City Built a Jewish World of Its Own
Moroccan Jewish Music
How a Shared Sound Survived Dispersal
Myanmar's Jews
How a Once-Visible Community Survived in One Synagogue
Nicole Eisenman
Queer Figuration and Social Life
Olga Avigail
Yiddish tango sounds like a contradiction until you remember where both traditions...
Paul Azaroff
Yiddish Teacher and Oral-History Witness
Sephardic Food
A Jewish Diaspora Cuisine Shaped by Expulsion and Adaptation
Shalhevet Girls Basketball
How an Orthodox School Made State History
Shalva Band
How an Israeli Ensemble Turned Inclusion Into Pop Culture
Sholem Aleichem
Yiddish Writer, Jewish Speech, and Literature
Shtisel
The Family Drama That Refused to Exoticize Haredi Life
The Broad
The Broad tested whether a free contemporary art museum built from private collecting...
The Coen Brothers
Joel and Ethan Coen did not become major filmmakers by inventing new genres.
The Colmar Treasure
What One Hidden Hoard Reveals About Medieval Jewish Life
The Jerusalem Post's 50 Most Influential Jews
What the List Actually Tracks
The Jews of Kaifeng
What Survived What Vanished and What Can Still Be Said
The Three Stooges
The Three Stooges turned Jewish-inflected slapstick and burlesque timing into a durable...
The Yiddish Book Center
How a Book Rescue Became a Cultural Renaissance
Unorthodox
Why the Netflix Miniseries Broke Through
Was Christopher Columbus a Converso?
The theory has a long history, the new DNA claim from 2024 complicated it further, and...
West Side Story
Jewish Creators Behind an American Classic
What 'Litvak' Means After Lithuania Was Destroyed
Litvak can mean a Jew from the lands of historic Lithuania. It can also mean something...
Where the Word 'Jew' Comes From, and
The word "Jew" did not begin as a timeless religious label. It started as a name tied to...
Why Hebrew Still Matters in Israel
Hebrew is not only the language of prayer books or Israeli street signs.
Why Jews Eat Chinese Food on Christmas
A History of Distance, Convenience, and Delight
Why Non-Jews Study Yiddish, and
That intimacy is real. It is also no longer enough to explain who studies Yiddish now,...
Why the Weitzman Museum Matters for American Jewish History
The Weitzman Museum matters because it treats American Jewish history as part of the...