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From the cover of "The Very Best Sukkah"
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Book takes Jewish children to ‘The Very Best Sukkah’ — in Uganda

Rabbi Ruth Abusch-Magder by Rabbi Ruth Abusch-Magder and Forward October 13, 2022October 13, 2022
"Charlotte," an animated WWII film about a German Jewish painter voiced by Keira Knightley, will screen as part of the Silicon Valley Jewish Film Festival.
Posted inCulture

Silicon Valley Jewish Film Festival to feature stories of love, war and restitution

Lauren Hakimi by Lauren Hakimi October 12, 2022October 20, 2022
Ben Ammi Ben Israel celebrating New World Passover with his followers in Dimona, Israel, May 2013. (Photo/Andrew Esensten)
Posted inAnalysis

‘Black people are actually Jew[s]’: The historical origins of Kanye West’s inflammatory comments

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten and JTA October 12, 2022August 27, 2023
an enlarged view of the stamp: a colorful stained-glass-style illustration of a lit Hanukkah menorah
Posted inU.S.

Meet the artist behind the new USPS Hanukkah stamp

Mira Fox by Mira Fox and Forward October 11, 2022
Vivien Straus' new one-woman show is called "After I'm Dead You'll Have to Feed Everyone." (Photo/RoccoPhotography.com)
Posted inTheater

‘After I’m Dead’: One-woman show honors ‘larger-than-life’ matriarch of Straus dairy family

Alix Wall by Alix Wall October 11, 2022October 12, 2022
an impressionistic painting of people strolling through a town square
Posted inOff the Shelf

‘One Hundred Saturdays’: A survivor’s moving evocation of Rhodes’ prewar Sephardic community

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman October 6, 2022October 6, 2022
Coolio in 1995, the year of “Gangsta’s Paradise.” (Photo/Forward-Steve Eichner-Getty Images)
Posted inMusic

RIP Coolio, who breathed new life into a familiar psalm

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar and Forward September 29, 2022
"Slater with the Trump mask," 2019 by Gillian Laub
Posted inCulture

Gillian Laub turns camera on her Trump-loving family in CJM exhibit

by Dan Pine September 29, 2022October 12, 2022
Debórah Eliezer plays a multitude of characters in "(dis)Place[d]." (Photo/Wendy Yalom)
Posted inTheater

‘(dis)Place[d]’: One-woman show is a journey through generations of Iraqi Jews

Laura Pall by Laura Paull September 28, 2022September 28, 2022
Actors playing Benjamin Netanyahu and Itamar Ben Gvir perform in a sketch on Eretz Nehederet, Sept. 21, 2022. (Screenshot/Twitter)
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Springtime for who? An Israeli satirical show shatters taboos by likening Itamar Ben-Gvir to Hitler

by Ron Kampeas and JTA September 28, 2022September 28, 2022

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