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Rob Kutner's book "The Jews: 5,000 Years and Counting" is published by Wicked Sons. (Courtesy)
Posted inOn Stage

Comedy writer Rob Kutner romps through 5,000 years of Jewish history

by Dan Pine November 18, 2025November 18, 2025

Given 3,000 years of slavery, exile, Crusades, ghettos, blood libel and the Holocaust, few chroniclers of history would consider the story of the Jews a laugh riot. Meet Rob Kutner, […]

Superman movie still
Posted inFilm

Why some think the new ‘Superman’ movie is about the war in Gaza

by Andrew Silow-Carroll July 16, 2025July 16, 2025
Art Spiegelman in "Disaster is my Muse." (Courtesy of Zipatone)
Posted inFilm

New documentary tells how MAD magazine, family ghosts and censorship made Art Spiegelman an anti-fascist artist

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar February 20, 2025February 21, 2025
An illustration of tourists standing in line at Auschwitz. One asks "Is this the line for ticket holders?" Another replies "It's for people who don't have tickets yet. I've been waiting for FOUR hours!"
Posted inHolocaust Remembrance Day

A gift shop at Auschwitz? New films and a graphic memoir explore the contradictions of ‘dark tourism’

by Andrew Silow-Carroll January 27, 2025January 27, 2025
Art Spiegelman's graphic novel "Maus" on sale at a French bookstore in 2017. (Photo/JTA-ActuaLitté-Flickr Commons)
Posted inComics

Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize winner behind ‘Maus,’ plans graphic novel about Gaza

Benyamin Cohen by Benyamin Cohen December 30, 2024December 30, 2024
Paintings from Archie Rand’s series “The 613.” (Courtesy)
Posted inCulture

These are the 30 pieces of contemporary Jewish culture that bring us joy

by J. Staff August 2, 2024October 15, 2024
Israeli actor Shira Haas as Sabra in the trailer for "Captain America: Brave New World." (Screenshot)
Posted inTV & Film

Did Marvel’s ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ really change an Israeli superhero into a Russian?

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar July 17, 2024July 17, 2024
a photo of a bearded man next to an illustration of a man standing at a podium that says "welcome rabbinical students." the man says, "first, do no ham."
Posted inBooks

‘Funny Stuff’: Gag cartoonist in Piedmont reverse-engineers his craft in new book

by Dan Pine June 24, 2024June 25, 2024
Trina Robbins (center) with Jan Duursema (left) and Carol Kalish on the "Women in Comics" panel at the 1982 San Diego Comic Con. (Photo/Alan Light CC BY 2.0)
Posted inObituaries

Trina Robbins, 85, the first woman to draw a full issue of ‘Wonder Woman’

by JTA and J. Staff April 24, 2024April 24, 2024
In "The Emperor of Atlantis," death, tired of war and bloodshed, goes on strike. (Illustration/Patrick Lay)
Posted inComics

In 1943, an opera was composed at a concentration camp. Now, it’s a graphic novel

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar April 2, 2024April 2, 2024

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