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Director Rachel Chavkin attends the “Hadestown” opening night at the Walter Kerr Theatre in New York City, April 17, 2019. (Jim Spellman/Getty Images)
David Yazbek, whose show “The Band’s Visit” swept the Tonys last year, was tapped again in the best original score category for “Tootsie.”
Read MoreThe number of Holocaust survivors who are still with us is shrinking. So there’s a push to document their stories before it’s too late.
Read MoreSet in the 1950s through the early 1970s, “Feast Your Eyes” is, at its core, a story of mothers and daughters.
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Elissa Strauss, left, and Gabrielle Birkner are the authors of the Kveller Haggadah. (Collage by Emily Burack)
The Passover seder can be boring for kids. A new Haggadah is trying to change that.
Read More“If I wasn’t going to be maintaining Jewish identity and celebrating Jewish holidays and cooking Jewish food on the farm, nobody was going to be.”–Molly Yeh
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Blair Braverman, 30, says all her sled dogs are Jewish — with the exception of one. (Christina Bodznic)
The 30-year-old musher crossed the finish line Sunday in Nome, Alaska, in 36th place. Her sled was pulled by 14 dogs.
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Andrew Barth Feldman performs in the titular role in “Dear Evan Hansen” with, from left, Michael Park, Jennifer Laura Thompson and Mallory Bechtel. (Matthew Murphy)
Ben Platt, the Jewish actor who originated the role as Evan, won the Tony Award for best actor in a musical in 2017.
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Matti Friedman’s newest book is “Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel.” (Mary Anderson/Algonquin Books)
“Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel,” which tells the captivating tale of Israel’s first spies, young Jewish men originally from Arab countries who could slip across borders undetected.
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Rashida Jones and Ezra Koenig in Beverly Hills, Calif., March 24, 2016. (Todd Williamson/Getty Images)
Announced on Feb. 13, here are the NAACP Image Awards nominees who are also Jewish, or have a Jewish connection.
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Adam Levine of Maroon 5 performs during the Super Bowl LIII halftime show at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Feb. 3, 2019. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Here’s a round up of the most Jewish moments of Super Bowl LIII.
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Jussie Smollett speaks at the Children's Defense Fund California's 28th Annual Beat The Odds Awards at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, Dec. 6, 2018. (Gabriel Olsen/Getty Images)
Jussie Smollett was born to a Jewish father and African-American mother. He portrays a gay musician on “Empire” named Jamal Lyon.
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