PEN America Withdraws Support for Israeli Comedian Facing Canceled Shows
One of America’s leading free-speech groups has withdrawn its support for an Israeli comedian after previously describing the threatened cancellation of his shows as...
A Spring Preview of the Arts in Jewish Philadelphia
Snow remains on the ground, and the weather remains cold, but spring remains only weeks away, and plenty of arts events are happening in...
Allan Sherman (‘Hello Muddah’) Gets Concert Treatment at Weitzman
Allan Sherman was a Jewish American comedy legend who earned fame as a song parodist throughout the 1960s, most notably with his summer camp...
Amsterdam’s Royal Concert Hall Cancels Annual Chanukah Concert, Citing Singer’s IDF Ties
By Grace Gilson
Last year, Amsterdam’s Royal Concert Hall held its 10th anniversary of a Chanukah concert series that was rebooted 70 years after it...
Fall Arts Preview
By Stephen Silver
Here’s a roundup of Jewish and Jewish-adjacent arts events around the Philadelphia region this fall.
The Jewish comedian Rachel Feinstein is performing at...
Well-Known Comedic Duo Comes to Philly to Tell Tales of Judaism in Sweden
What do you know about Sweden?
That it’s the home of IKEA? That it’s cold? That it has good meatballs?
Many Americans know some of these...
‘Kosher Barbie’: Winning Over Hearts and Minds in NYC
Amelie Botbol | JNS
Raised in a Hasidic home in Jerusalem, Ayelet Raymond was taught that women’s beauty should be concealed “like a precious diamond...
At YIVO, an Unfinished Yiddish Dictionary Gets the Last Word — as Opera
Andrew Silow-Carroll | JTA
In the hallways of New York’s YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the story was told as a punchline: the great Yiddish...
Alex Edelman and Fans of ‘Long Story Short’ May Disagree, but a New Book...
Andrew Silow-Carroll | JTA
On stage on Sunday, Sept. 7, at the Jewish Theological Seminary, the comedian Alex Edelman told a Jewish joke that he...
Telling Stories About the Jewish Experience at Philadelphia’s Theatre Ariel
Theatre Ariel, Philadelphia’s professional theater company that is dedicated to telling stories about the Jewish experience, is starting its 2025–2026 season bigger and better...