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Members of the Kalush Orchestra from Ukraine await the results of the Eurovision Song Festival in Turin, Italy, May 14, 2022. (Photo/EBU)
Posted inMusic

Unable to film in Ukraine, Eurovision song contest winners made their intro video in Israel

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA May 16, 2022May 16, 2022
Michael Aloni and Hila Saada as the central couple in "The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem." (Photo/YES Studios)
Posted inTV

‘The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem’: Can a new Israeli Netflix series succeed if it flunks history?

Mira Fox by Mira Fox and Forward May 12, 2022June 2, 2022
Beanie Feldstein as "Fanny Brice" during the opening night curtain call for the musical "Funny Girl" on Broadway at The August Wilson Theatre in New York City, April 24, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Bruce Glikas-WireImage)
Posted inTheater

‘Funny Girl’ snubbed, but ‘Lehman’ stock rises, in Tony nominations

by Andrew Lapin and JTA May 12, 2022
From left: Crystal Brown, Melissa Clason and Carol Braves in a 2017 production of Jamie Greenblatt's "Female, Ashkenazi With a Sewing Machine." (Photo/Jim Norrena)
Posted inCulture

Cast your vote: annual Jewish Playwriting Contest comes to Bay Area

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten May 11, 2022May 17, 2022
The youngest of 11 children, Faisal Saleh, founder of the Palestine Museum US, was born in 1951 in the West Bank town of El Bireh.
Posted inUncategorized

In America’s only Palestinian museum, a chance to explore common ground (and mostly avoid politics)

by Cathryn J. Prince and Forward May 10, 2022
American author Joshua Cohen is seen at the Coop Ambasciatori bookshop in Bologna, Italy, Sept. 5, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Roberto Serra-Iguana Press-Getty Images)
Posted inBooks

Joshua Cohen’s satirical novel ‘The Netanyahus’ wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA May 9, 2022
Mikołaj Grynberg is the author of the short story collection "I'd Like to Say I'm Sorry, but There's No One to Say Sorry to." (Photo/Wikimedia-Jacek Proszyk)
Posted inBooks

Haunting story collection provides portrait of Jewish life in postwar Poland

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman May 9, 2022July 12, 2023
The cast of "Heirs of the Land" on set in Spain in 2020. (Photo/Courtesy Netflix)
Posted inTV & Film

Spanish Jews take the spotlight in ‘Heirs to the Land,’ a Netflix series set pre-Inquisition

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA May 9, 2022
Jewlia Eisenberg's posthumous album is called “The Ginzburg Geography.” (Photo/Robin Hultgren)
Posted inCulture

Jewlia Eisenberg channels anti-fascist Italian lovers on posthumous album

Andrew Gilbert by Andrew Gilbert May 6, 2022June 8, 2022
Claire Stanford is the author of "Happy for You" and will appear this weekend at the Bay Area Book Fest. (Photo/Laura Pardo)
Posted inBooks

Bay Area Book Fest: Claire Stanford’s debut novel takes on tech-driven obsession with happiness

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten May 5, 2022July 20, 2022

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