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Ben Fisher’s album “Does the Land Remember Me?” explores the history of Israel from Israeli and Palestinian viewpoints. (Kendall Rock)
On the album, which comes out Sept. 7, Ben Fisher inhabits a range of characters, from early Israelis nervous about their new country to Palestinians forced to leave their homes to a settler imagining his eventual expulsion from the West Bank.
Read More“I always got a little defensive about that because if I’m going to literally perform my blackness for an audience, I want it to be on my terms. I don’t want the terms dictated to me.” –Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell
Read MoreJerry Wexler persuaded Franklin to leave Columbia Records in 1966 and sign with Atlantic Records, where he was an executive. Wexler would go on to produce multiple albums of hers.
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Founded in 1976, the National Museum of American Jewish History is located at 101 S. Independence Mall East in Center City Philadelphia.
(Photo by Stephen Silver)
Things in Philly have always been a bit more Jewish than you might’ve initially thought.
Read MoreThe ice cream doesn’t contain any THC, the active psychoactive ingredient found in marijuana.
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Oscar the Grouch, left, and his Israeli cousin Moishe Oofnik visited the Jewish federations’ General Assembly in New Orleans to promote “Shalom Sesame,” a version of “Sesame Street” created for Israel’s Educational Television channel, November 2010. (Daniel Sieradski)
IETV was Israel’s first TV network. It hosted such classic shows as “Rehov Sumsum,” the Israeli version of “Sesame Street.”
Read MoreFor his latest novel, “Lake Success,” Gary Shteyngart has Ben Stiller in his corner.
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"BlacKkKlansman" tells the story of two cops -- a black and a Jew -- infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan in 1972. (Screenshot from YouTube)
“BlacKkKlansman” is an alarm clock, telling Jews — who still need police protection at their places of worship — to wake up.
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The poke bowl dish at The Avocado Show in Amsterdam is among the the many images patrons share on social media. (Courtesy of The Avocado Show)
In addition to avocado salads, avocado pancakes, egg dishes and smoothies, there’s an avocado burger: The meat is sandwiched between two peeled halves sprinkled with sesame to resemble buns.
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On the 100th anniversary of Hydrox in 2008, Kellogg’s briefly resumed distribution of the original sandwich cookie under the Sunshine label. (Wikimedia Commons)
Until a glorious day in 1998, Hydrox was the premiere kosher sandwich cookie on the market, while Oreos remained treyf, lacking a kosher heksher, or seal of approval.
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Kate Bornstein after the opening night of "Straight White Men" in New York City, July 23, 2018. (Walter McBride/WireImage)
“Me, I’m a Jew from the Jersey Shore,” Kate Bornstein responds. “And I’m what’s called nonbinary, which means not man, not woman in the English language.”
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