Ideas The 20th century was very good for these Jewish icons. Is the Golden Age really over? Mel Brooks, Betty Friedan, Norman Mailer and Leonard Bernstein are the “unruly” subjects of David Denby’s “Eminent Jews.”
Arlene Agus, New Yorker who popularized Rosh Chodesh rituals for Jewish women, dies at 75 A pioneering Jewish feminist and founding member of Minyan M’at on the Upper West Side.
A Brooklyn artist, raised Orthodox, paints the Western canon in ‘drag’ In a Soho gallery show, Tirtzah Bassel asks what happens to classic art when women become the main story.
New York A new Instagram account tells the story of New Yorker Judith Kaplan, America’s first-ever bat mitzvah
Ideas Telling the forgotten story of Osnat Barzani, the first female rabbi who lived 400 years ago, is a win for Mizrahi representation