Culture

At a Jewish comic book festival, fans and creators take time to celebrate joy

“To be in a space where everyone’s a Jewish creator, and is channeling their Judaism into art and comics and telling stories, is everything,” said Jewish cartoonist Danielle Brody.

As Europe’s Jews see a new era of antisemitism, governments struggle over how to respond

There is clear confusion in European governments and police departments about how to distinguish between the right to assemble at pro-Palestinian rallies and the crime of hate speech.

In New Yorker doc ‘Nina & Irena,’ a director helps his grandmother open up about the Holocaust

(JTA) — Daniel Lombroso sees “Nina & Irena,” his documentary short film about his grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, as a coda to his 2020 documentary “White Noise,” in which he followed leaders in the “alt-right” movement. For the four years during the making of “White Noise,” he was surrounded by neo-Nazis, who were on the […]