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Workers build the stage for Eurovision Song Contest at Expo Tel Aviv, April 15, 2019. (Photo-JTA-Jack Guez-AFP-Getty Images)
Posted inMusic

Israel’s Eurovision planners say rockets won’t stop the music

by JTA and Sam Sokol May 7, 2019
the covers of both books superimposed over a photo of the Israeli flag
Posted inBooks, Columns, Culture, Holidays, Yom HaAtzmaut, Off the Shelf

Two new books give Zionist feminists a well-deserved place in history

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman May 3, 2019May 3, 2019
Seth Rogen and Charlize Theron star in "Long Shot"
Posted inColumns

Seth Rogen as First Gentleman; three new Netflix series to check out; etc.

by Nate Bloom May 2, 2019May 2, 2019
Michael David Lukas, author of "The Last Watchman of Old Cairo"
Posted inCulture

Oakland author Michael David Lukas wins $100k Jewish literature prize for ‘Watchman of Old Cairo’

Laura Pall by Laura Paull May 1, 2019May 1, 2019
a man with a short beard looks despondent, while an arm bearing a swastika armband passes in front of him
Posted inTheater

New play, premiering in S.F., tells the story of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

by Patricia Corrigan May 1, 2019May 1, 2019
collage of cover art from "Mourning" by Eduardo Halfon, "We Were the Lucky Ones" by Georgia Hunter, "The Flight Portfolio" but Julie Orringer, and "Sophie's Choice" by William Styron
Posted inYom HaShoah

Why Holocaust fiction is still so popular

by Emily Burack May 1, 2019May 2, 2019
From the cover of "The Man Who Lit Lady Liberty" by Richard Schwartz
Posted inBooks

Turn-of-the-century actor who changed the way people saw Jews

Laura Pall by Laura Paull April 29, 2019May 3, 2019
Ramy Youssef stars in the Hulu series “Ramy.”
Posted inTV & Film

Why Jews should watch ‘Ramy,’ a new series about a millennial Muslim

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA April 26, 2019
An old black and white photo of a bald man with mustache smoking a cigar
Posted inYom HaAtzmaut

Legendary screenwriter made pre-state Israel his cause célèbre

Paul Wilner by Paul Wilner April 25, 2019May 3, 2019
An April 20 performance of “The Wait Room” in San Francisco
Posted inDance

Prison families’ painful experiences take flight in ‘The Wait Room’

Laura Pall by Laura Paull April 24, 2019April 24, 2019

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