Visual Moment | Lost Time: Painting through a Pandemic
Confined to her home studio in Ramat Gan outside Tel Aviv during the COVID-19 lockdown, Kiev-born Israeli artist Zoya Cherkassky started producing a painting a day....
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I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: An Interview with Esther Safran Foer
I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir By Esther Safran Foer Tim Duggan Book $27.00, 226 pp. [divider] Though her parents didn’t talk about it, Esther Safran Foer knew she had lost family members, even close relatives, in the Holocaust—she just didn’t know how close. “My...
What to Watch Next: A (Jewish) Irish Rebel
Even as pandemic lockdowns are eased in some respects and locales, we’re likely to need home screen and streaming content for at least a while longer, especially those of us in compromised categories. In recent months I’ve reviewed streaming series with central or prominent supporting Jewish...
Book Review | Philip Roth’s Jewish America
The first time I read a book by Philip Roth, I read it from back to front....
Opinion | ‘Mrs. America’ Gets It Wrong
"It galls me when Mrs. America keeps underscoring the friction among feminists rather than grappling with the complexity of our challenges."...
Meet the Jewish Women At the Heart of FX’s ‘Mrs. America’
FX’s newly released Mrs. America portrays the battle between the second-wave feminists who aimed to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) and conservative Phyllis Schlafly who strongly opposed their agenda and organized the “STOP ERA” campaign. The series documents the stories of these women who...
What to Watch: ‘The Restaurant,’ Swedish Cuisine, with a Jewish Flavor
When The Restaurant launched in Sweden in 2017, the website Drama Quarterly said that the series “is as brave, bold and ambitious as they come. A sprawling ensemble drama that opens in the aftermath of the Second World War and runs across two decades, it...
‘The Plot Against America’ Adds New, Rich Layers to Roth’s Classic
Simon and Burns thus expand the point of view of the series, taking us outside Philip’s home and into Evelyn and Alvin’s lives. In doing so, they fill out Roth’s characters, shaping them into vibrant and complex figures driven by clear motivations and desires. They...
Book Review | ‘We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders’
In his foreword to Linda Sarsour’s memoir of political activism, Harry Belafonte remarks, “It wasn’t that long ago that we lost Martin and Malcom and Bobby.” He is comparing the vilification of Sarsour, the hijab-wearing, Brooklyn-born Palestinian-American, for her anti-Israeli politics to the murderous racist...