culture

This week’s featured homepage article is written by MJL’s go-to movie critic Saul Austerlitz. But recently in the Forward, he ...

The new Contemporary Jewish Museum, seeks to present “a contemporary perspective on Jewish art, culture and historyâ€?, without functioning as ...

Recently Dunkin’ Donuts pulled a television spot featuring talk show host and Food Network personality Rachael Ray after a Fox ...

There were many surreal moments last Wednesday night, when Shimon Peres’ “Facing Tomorrow” conference celebrated the American-Israeli relationship, an evening ...

Last night I was watching the Chicago Cubs game against the St. Louis Cardinals on ESPN. Around the top of ...

In this installment of From the Academy Dr. Galit Hasan Rokem, Max and Margarethe Grunwald Chair of Folklore at the Hebrew ...

Oh Jay Firestone. Replace “Twenty-three” with “Twenty-six” and “male” with “female” and you actually have me: The Next Intergenerational Mah ...

In my latest column for the Jerusalem Post, I look at the post-literary career of Anne Frank’s The Diary of ...

It’s omer counting time, and MJL has a daily counter to help you in this task. But I’m more inclined ...

-In “Herencia Judia (Jewish Heritage),� “Lapidus has reimagined familiar Jewish texts (and occasionally, traditional melodies) in Caribbean rhythms. The familiar ...