Culture

The New York Jewish Week’s Jewish culture coverage

A new exhibit honors writer Lore Segal, a child survivor and lifelong skeptic of easy truths

“And That’s True Too” traces the New Yorker writer's arc from Kindertransport to Manhattan, where she dazzled with her novels, short stories and children's books.

Culture

Stories of ghosts, grief and Shabbat gladness win top prizes in Jewish children’s literature

The Association of Jewish Libraries announces its Sydney Taylor Book Awards for 2026.

United States

As Habonim Dror camps open space for anti-Zionist views, some families push back

A new camp principle welcoming non- and anti-Zionist perspectives reflects post-Oct. 7 generational divides within a century-old youth movement.

Culture

Judd Apatow grew up idolizing Mel Brooks. Now he’s telling Brooks’ story in an HBO documentary.

1943. New York. They Too Have a Right to Live (1)

Museums

This Jewish artist fought Nazis with a paintbrush, when art like his still mattered

Culture

From Israel to Morocco to an HBCU in New Orleans, these Jewish artists are searching for home

Culture

What keeping a diary taught me about making each day count

A century after the famed composer wed Ellin Mackay, a Catholic heiress, their once-scandalous marriage offers a window into how Jewish attitudes toward interfaith unions have evolved — and how much they haven’t.

Culture

Irving Berlin’s 1926 interfaith marriage sparked a Jewish debate that, 100 years later, hasn’t gone away

Teen Fellowship

At Illinois Holocaust Museum, teens learn the Shoah’s Jewish history — and how to apply its lessons to today

Books

Before ‘SNL,’ there was Sid Caesar — and a roomful of Jewish writers