What’s the Big Dill? Pickleball Hits the Holy Land
David Wiseman | JNS
The 2020s offer an endless menu of micro-obsessions, sometimes making you feel that you are expected to pick one: Get on...
Aaron Lansky Built a Home for 1.5 Million Yiddish Books. Now He’s Handing Over...
By Andrew Silow-Carroll | JTA
Steven Spielberg had already donated money to the Yiddish Book Center when he asked if the center’s founder, Aaron Lansky,...
Weekly Kibbitz: ‘The Jews’ Fight Is My Fight,’ Dr. Phil Tells JNS
The television host Phil McGraw, known as Dr. Phil, has received death threats, been swatted repeatedly and faced an onslaught of hate mail for...
Yeshiva University Men’s Basketball Team Nets a Big Win in ‘Rebound’
For this group of young men, basketball is much more than just a game.
In “Rebound: A Year of Triumph and Tragedy at Yeshiva University...
Is Barbie Jewish? The Complex Jewish History of the Doll, Explained
Long before the craze over the upcoming “Barbie” movie ...
Meet the Real-Life Sister Act Behind the Two New ’90s Jewish American Girl Dolls
As children in upstate New York ...
You Should Know…Paul Farber
As co-founder and director of Monument Lab, a Philadelphia-based public art and history studio nonprofit, Paul Farber is concerned with memory.
According to Farber, 40,...
Science History Institute Details Story of Chemist’s Holocaust Survival
If asked to conjure an image of a Jewish German scientist who came to America to escape Nazi clutches, many think of Albert Einstein....
Players Club’s ‘Indecent’ ‘Wrestles’ with Judaism, Queerness, Censorship
Paula Vogel’s 2015 play “Indecent” is both retrospective and prescient.
The Tony Award-winning show explores the real-life controversy that followed the early 20th century Yiddish...
Walnut Street Theatre Honors Neil Simon Through the Ages
At the end of the Walnut Street Theatre’s 1961 season, 34-year-old Neil Simon debuted his first full-length play, “Come Blow Your Horn,” a comedy...