Calendar: May 29-June 2
Sunday, May 29
Jewish Matryoshka Project: Theatrical Trip to Israel
The Macks Center for Jewish Education and Ariel Center invite Russian-speaking families on a theatrical tour...
5 movies to cap Jewish American Heritage Month
By Adam Reinherz
The story of American Jewry traces its origins to 23 Jewish refugees who arrived in the present-day port of New York City...
You Should Know … Judith Gale Mont
Judith Gale Mont is showing young children the beauty found in nature, and how to transform it into works of art.
Mont is a fine...
You Should Know … Matthew Goodman
At Defender One Security, Mathew Goodman, 27, works to protect the community.
Goodman grew up in the Baltimore area, where he had his bar mitzvah...
‘Funny Girl’ snubbed, but ‘Lehman’ stock rises, in Tony nominations
By Andrew Lapin
Some of the biggest Jewish names on Broadway weren’t shining so bright in this year’s Tony nominations.
The much-anticipated revival of “Funny Girl,”...
HBO’s ‘The Survivor’ asks a profound question
By Jarrad Saffren
How powerful is a reason to live?
That is the question that animates Jewish director Barry Levinson’s new movie, “The Survivor,” released...
Nancy Kutler leads the Jewish museum board of trustees
Update 5/17/22: The article's headline has been updated to better reflect the content of the story.
While the pandemic ground entire industries to a standstill...
You Should Know … Ralph Imani
Ralph Imani, 26, works to provide low-income housing as a real estate investor.
Imani’s parents immigrated to Baltimore and New York from Iran in the...
Orthodox MLB draft pick Elie Kligman has a younger brother who could follow him...
By Rob Charry
Some Jewish baseball fans know the name Elie Kligman, even though he’s just a freshman in college. That’s because last year...
Joshua Cohen’s satirical novel ‘The Netanyahus’ wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
The 2022 Pulitzer Prize in fiction went to “The Netanyahus,” a scathing, satirical novel by Brooklyn writer Joshua Cohen that imagines a...
