Culture

Masks of all kinds: Scenes from a pandemic Purim across the world

For some, this was the first pandemic Purim. For others, it was the second. For all, it was a chance to celebrate despite COVID-19.

By JTA Staff February 26, 2021 3:02 pm

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The Vigil

Beyond the golem: Horror film ‘The Vigil’ stars lesser-known Jewish demons

Director Keith Thomas hints that an entire Jewish horror genre could be on the rise.

February 25, 2021 8:01 pm

Puppets of Mordechai and Hitler made by Nechama Mayer-Hirsch in 1951. (Courtesy of the Jewish Historical Museum of Amsterdam)

Hitler as Haman? An Amsterdam museum holds a relic of that post-Holocaust Purim tradition.

In the years that followed the Holocaust, survivors used to cast regularly the German mass murderer as Haman or his sidekick.

February 25, 2021 5:51 pm

On a Jewish tour of northern Ontario, small spaces convey decades of history

By Robert Walker February 25, 2021 4:27 pm

Opinion

How Queen Esther Became an American Hero

By Andrew Silow-Carroll February 25, 2021 11:00 am

NBC pulls episode of ‘Nurses’ show after backlash over its portrayal of Orthodox Jews

By Gabe Friedman February 25, 2021 9:21 am

Bess Soffer, 68, Jewish community leader whose last words, by FaceTime, were ‘group hug’

By Shira Feder February 24, 2021 3:48 pm

NBC under fire for portrayal of Orthodox Jews on Canadian series ‘Nurses’

By Andrew Lapin February 24, 2021 1:34 pm

Opinion

What Jewish comedians made of Michael Che’s Israel joke

By Andrew Silow-Carroll February 24, 2021 11:53 am

Transgender Jews are finding a safe haven in an unexpected place: the farm

By Ben Harris February 24, 2021 11:34 am

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