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Poster for "The House on Chelouche Street"
Posted inTV & Film

Liked ‘Beauty Queen of Jerusalem’? Here are 7 other movies and shows that feature Ladino.

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA June 2, 2022June 2, 2022
Bradley Cooper as Leonard Bernstein on the set of "Maestro." (Photo/Netflix)
Posted inTV & Film

Netflix releases photos of Bradley Cooper wearing prosthetic nose to portray Leonard Bernstein, reigniting Jewish representation debate

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA June 1, 2022June 1, 2022
Corey Brady and Tristan Ching Hartmann rehearse "Global Moves," the 50th anniversary performance of Margaret Jenkins Dance Company at Presidio Theatre, June 16-19, 2022. (Photo/Kegan Marling)
Posted inCulture

Margaret Jenkins looks back on 50 years of pioneering modern dance

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene June 1, 2022June 8, 2022
A wall at ANU—Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv honors Jewish literary greats. (Photo/JTA-Andrew Silow-Carroll)
Posted inCulture

What is a Jew? Israel’s renovated Diaspora museum attempts a three-story answer.

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA May 31, 2022
David Harbour in a scene from season four of "Stranger Things." (Screenshot from YouTube)
Posted inTV

Season 4 of Netflix’s ‘Stranger Things’ filmed in a Lithuanian prison where Nazis jailed Jews

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer and JTA May 30, 2022May 27, 2022
Author and conspiracy theory expert Mike Rothschild (Photo/JTA-Courtesy)
Posted inBooks

A Rothschild who debunks conspiracy theories and writes about Jewish space lasers

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA May 26, 2022May 26, 2022
"Drag gave me a space to let out this other side of myself," says Brock Uhl, whose drag persona is named Anastasia.
Posted inOn Stage

Pleasanton teen Brock Uhl (AKA ‘Anastasia’) brings drag shows to suburban East Bay

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten May 24, 2022May 27, 2022
two pics: first, a headshot of Imhoff, a smiling white woman; second, the cover of the book
Posted inBooks

New book: A ‘Queer, Disabled’ early Zionist illustrates ‘roads not taken’

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA May 24, 2022
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky holds a press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, Mar. 12, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Emin Sansar-Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Posted inCulture

Volodymyr Zelensky, Mila Kunis, Zoë Kravitz among Jews on this year’s Time 100 list

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg and JTA May 24, 2022May 24, 2022
Tunisian Jewish boxer Victor Perez (left) is featured on the new podcast "Holocaust Histories." (Photo/JTA-Jeff Dickson-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inCulture

A new podcast chronicles the little-known stories of boxers from the Holocaust era

Jacob Gurvis by Jacob Gurvis and JTA May 23, 2022

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