The songs of Ishay Ribo, who was raised in a settlement on the West Bank, are a staple of Israeli radio. He is part of a wave of singers from religious backgrounds who are also gaining a wider audience.
Category: Jews and Judaism
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Tiny Love Stories: ‘What the Ukrainian Grandmothers Have Written’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
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Where You Can Discover England’s Lost Jewish Past
Around eight centuries ago, Jews thrived in England, worshiping freely and living where they pleased. Then everything changed. You can uncover their stories, if you know where to look.
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Chloé Gets Its First Big Museum Show in New York
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:A new exhibition on the French fashion house and its fearless founder, Gaby Aghion, is set to open at the Jewish Museum this fall.
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Micaela Diamond, From Broadway’s ‘Parade,’ Sings Her Favorite Joni Mitchell Song
The New York Times – T Magazine:The actor, who learned to love music at her local temple, has developed a different relationship to her Judaism onstage.
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The Bakers Reimagining Traditional Jewish Pastries
The New York Times – T Magazine:By transforming once-kosher recipes with new flavors, shapes and techniques, chefs are innovating on, and safeguarding, time-honored breads and pastries.
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‘The Sassoons’: A Family Romance at Global Scale
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:The Jewish Museum surveys one of the grandest families of the 19th century: a hemisphere-spanning dynasty of merchants, poets, soldiers and socialites (oh, and also drug lords).
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A Dave Brubeck Cantata Boasts Star Soloists: His Sons
The New York Times – Music:“The Gates of Justice,” a large-scale 1969 choral work about relations between Black and Jewish Americans, is being performed in Los Angeles.
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Hugh Hudson, Director of ‘Chariots of Fire,’ Dies at 86
The New York Times – Movies:His first film — about two runners, one Christian, one Jewish, who compete at the 1924 Summer Olympics — won four Oscars, including for best picture.
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Solomon Perel, Jew Who Posed as a Hitler Youth to Survive, Dies at 97
The New York Times – Movies:His masquerade — a tale recounted in a memoir and in the film “Europa Europa” — saved his life. But “to this day,” he said, “I have a tangle of two souls in one body.”
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She’s Building a Little Jewish Magazine On Big Ideas
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:After a rebellious youth and years spent on an unpublished novel, Arielle Angel, the editor of Jewish Currents, has carved out a role for herself as someone who questions entrenched ideas.
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Day 25: That Time an Orthodox Jew Celebrated Christmas
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:Alex Edelman, a comedian, recalls his family’s one-night fling with Christmas — undertaken as a mitzvah for a non-Jewish friend.