Culture

The author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel in his office in 1980, surrounded by books and papers

Citing risk to Elie Wiesel’s ‘Night,’ Iowa judge blocks key parts of state book ban law

Iowa’s Republican governor signed the bill into law last year along with other culture-war legislation targeting transgender athletes and student pronouns in schools.

Rock star Alanis Morissette uncovers her family’s Holocaust history on PBS’ ‘Finding Your Roots’

The seven-time Grammy winner “found out that I was Jewish in my late 20s.”

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The best Jewish books I read in 2023

Memoirs, novels and biographies that plumbed the historical and the personal.

A Nazi commander looks at his family's garden in the shadow of Auschwitz in a scene from "The Zone of Interest"

The real Auschwitz commandant — and Yiddish resistance song — behind ‘The Zone of Interest’

How students and teachers feel about AI in the Jewish classroom

The New York Jewish Week’s 10 most-read stories of 2023

Kanye West apologizes to the Jewish community — in Hebrew

Bradley Cooper, Timothée Chalamet, Rudolph Hoess

What to watch on Christmas? Your Jewish guide to this winter’s biggest movies

9 classic Jewish New York movies you can stream right now

Author Alice Walker takes a bow onstage as a Broadway cast stands and claps behind her

A new ‘Color Purple’ adaptation hits theaters, returning author Alice Walker’s history of antisemitism to spotlight

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