Sunday Features

At YIVO, an unfinished Yiddish dictionary gets the last word — as opera

To mark its centenary, YIVO stages a work about the competing visions for a monumental, and aborted, reference work about the language of Eastern Europe’s Jews.

Ideas

Take it from this rabbi: You should binge-watch Netflix’s ‘Long Story Short’ for the High Holidays

The show’s hyper-detailed portrayal of American Judaism stands out for being loving.

Comic Gianmarco Soresi mines his mixed Jewish background for laughs

A “comedian to watch” built a following with videos of his ad-libbed banter with club audiences.

My congregant was stabbed for being Jewish. What happened the next Shabbat was incredible.

Brad Lander calls for ‘coalition of anti-Zionists and liberal Zionists’ in appearance with Zohran Mamdani

Sam Sussman’s novel is about his Jewish mom and the teasing possibility that Bob Dylan is his dad

The cast of "The Matriarchs," which opens at Theaterlab on Sept. 10 and plays through Sept. 28. (Miranda Jackel)

Women of the Torah step into the spotlight as contemporary bat mitzvah girls in a new play

Spurning Jewish Voice for Peace as insufficiently radical, new Jewish group joins ‘student intifada’

In Moldova, Jewish life is fueled by descendants of those who fled — and new refugees from Ukraine

David Schaecter, Holocaust survivor who founded Miami Beach memorial and led survivors’ advocacy group, dies at 96

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