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Musician John Schott is the mind behind an upcoming all-night rendition of "'Round Midnight." (Photo/Cookie Segelstein)
Posted inMusic

Theolonious Monk’s masterpiece becomes an all-night Shavuot musical meditation

Andrew Gilbert by Andrew Gilbert May 23, 2022May 24, 2022
Zachary Noah Piser is taking over the role of Evan Hansen on Broadway full-time, becoming the first Asian American actor to do so. (Photo/JTA-Matthew Murphy)
Posted inTheater

Broadway’s new ‘Evan Hansen’ is an Asian-American Jew with mohel parents

by Evelyn Frick and Hey Alma May 19, 2022May 23, 2022
Heather Klein in front of the display about her grandmother, Rose Klein, at the Angel Island Immigration Museum. (Photo/Courtesy Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation)
Posted inNews

Jewish immigrant story part of new museum on Angel Island, ‘Ellis Island of the West’

Larry Sokoloff by Larry Sokoloff May 18, 2022May 19, 2022
"Transkids" follows the gender transitions of four Jewish Israeli teens. (Photo/Ohad Romano)
Posted inFilm

‘Transkids,’ Israeli documentary about transgender teens, gets virtual screening

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten May 16, 2022May 18, 2022
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

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