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Stav Ziv

Stav Ziv is a journalist based in New York City whose work has also appeared in Dance Magazine, The Atlantic, Newsday and the San Francisco Chronicle. She was previously a staff writer at Newsweek and the deputy editor at The Muse.

a woman in an orange dress in a dance pose on a black floor
Posted inDance

An Israeli artist poses a bold question: What if Othello wasn’t at the center of ‘Othello’

by Stav Ziv December 13, 2023December 13, 2023

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. Hilla Ben Ari is reimagining a reimagining. The Tel […]

Art from "Brother's Keeper" by Arnon Shorr and Joshua Edelglass. (Illustration/Forward-Courtesy 
Shorr and Edelglass)
Posted inComics

A Jewish family story about defending a kibbutz in 1948 takes on new meaning

by Stav Ziv November 14, 2023November 15, 2023
From a series of illustrations by Inbal Hoffman, shared on her Instagram @inbalhoffman
Posted inCulture

After the massacre, a Tel Aviv tattoo artist is filling a profound abyss with art

by Stav Ziv October 31, 2023
Israeli-born pianist Tom Borrow (Photo/Michael Pavia)
Posted inMusic

‘Incandescent’ Israeli concert pianist Tom Borrow, just 22, to perform in Berkeley amid world tour

by Stav Ziv September 18, 2023September 29, 2023
Ella Rosenblatt, age 2, with her filmmaker father, Jay Rosenblatt in "How Do You Measure a Year?" (Photo/Courtesy HBO)
Posted inFilm

How it feels to watch yourself grow up in 29 minutes flat

by Stav Ziv August 16, 2023August 16, 2023
The Ramaz Chamber Choir on location during a video shoot. (Photo/Courtesy of Ramaz Chamber Choir-WIWU Productions)
Posted inCulture

What happened to all the women in all those a cappella Hanukkah videos?

by Stav Ziv and Forward December 19, 2022
Brothers Esteban Hernández (left; photo/Erik Tomasson) and Isaac (right; photo/Stephen Texeira) are both appearing in "The Nutcracker" in San Francisco this year.
Posted inCulture

Raised in large Mexican Jewish family, these brothers are dancing together in S.F. Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker’

by Stav Ziv November 23, 2022November 25, 2022
A Passover seder in 2019. (Photo/JTA-Creative Touch Imagine Ltd/Nurphoto)
Posted inUncategorized

As in-person Seders return, some vulnerable Jews are being left behind

by Stav Ziv and Forward April 14, 2022
Throughout research for her book, Friedman learned about how movement improved women’s physical and mental health and well-being and contributed to their confidence, independence, self-worth, happiness, and ability to be active participants in their own lives even as they grew older. (Photo/Courtesy Jazzercise)
Posted inCulture

How Jewish women pioneered the fitness movement

by Stav Ziv and Forward March 18, 2022

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