Arts & Entertainment

Grilled Chicken and Beef Fajita Kabobs (Photo courtesy of the Classic Catering People)

In the Kitchen: Get Your Grill On

April 26, 2018 The Classic Catering People

It’s time to savor the tastes and aromas of sumptuous meals cooked on the grill.

Artist Jordan B. Chadrow created this painting as an homage to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. (Photo by Lisa Shifren)

Artist Creates Work Marking Warsaw Ghetto Uprising’s 75th Anniversary

April 25, 2018 Lisa Shifren

The project took more than seven decades, but Jordan Chadrow, now 87, says he finished the painting in time for the 75th anniversary of the uprising, which was the single largest Jewish revolt of the war.

William Shatner (Photo by Rory Lewis)

Quick 5: William Shatner

April 25, 2018 Simone Ellin, Associate Editor

William Shatner on which celeb would make him geek out and dumb interview questions.

Bebe Neuwirth: “There’s always a struggle between commerce and art. You try to choose a project that has something in it for you, but also allows you to pay the mortgage.” (Handout)

Bebe Neuwirth Brings Her Musical Revue to Baltimore

April 25, 2018 Carol Sorgen

Jmore recently spoke with Bebe Neuwirth about her career, favorite roles, musical revue and why she likes to throw around pots.

Leonard Cohen's grave, next to three generations of his family, in the Congregation Shaar Hashomayim cemetery in Montreal. (Ben Harris)

A Montreal Pilgrimage in the Footsteps of Leonard Cohen

April 24, 2018 Ben Harris

“He came into the world a Montreal Jew and he left the world a Montreal Jew,” said Gideon Zelermyer, the cantor at Shaar Hashomayim, who presided over the burial with the synagogue’s rabbi.

Everyman Theatre resident company member Danny Gavigan portrays Joseph in "The Book of Joseph." (Photo by Steve Ruark)

Stories from the Attic

April 24, 2018 Martha Thomas

The intergenerational family saga is told through a cache of letters and documents stamped with swastikas that were discovered by Richard (played by Bruce Nelson) in a dusty, old suitcase in the attic of his parents.

Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler in "Schindler's List." (Screenshot from YouTube)

‘Schindler’s List’ at 25: How Steven Spielberg’s Deeply Jewish Story Spoke to the Masses

April 23, 2018 JTA

“Schindler’s List” demonstrated that a Jewish story could remain deeply Jewish and yet speak to the mainstream not only of American society, but the contemporary culture as well.

J.K. Rowling attends the 70th British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) at Royal Albert Hall in London, Feb. 12, 2017. (John Phillips/Getty Images)

J.K. Rowling is Giving a Master Class in Identifying Anti-Semitism and It’s Magical

April 18, 2018 JTA

Rowling got in so deep, she forgot for a moment that her followers mainly want to chat about, well, Harry Potter.

Jewish Currents (JTA collage)

Jewish Currents, a 72-Year-Old Left-Wing Magazine, Wants to Appeal to Millennials

April 18, 2018 Josefin Dolsten, JTA

This won’t be the first time Jewish Currents, a 72-year-old magazine for the secular left, undergoes a transformation.

Leonard Bernstein is shown at the opening of "West Side Story" at the National Theater in Washington, D.C., in 1957. (Library of Congress, Music Division)

7 Treasures from a Centennial Exhibit on Leonard Bernstein

April 18, 2018 Penny Schwartz

The American-born son of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants, Leonard Bernstein’s influence spanned the musical world, from classical music to Broadway.

Maharat Ruth Friedman with the manager of Khepra's Raw Food Juice Bar, a vegan restaurant she and Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld recently certified kosher. (Courtesy of Friedman)

How Washington, D.C., Got a Bunch of New Kosher Restaurants

April 17, 2018 Ben Sales, JTA

For more than a decade, D.C. had only one kosher restaurant. Eli’s, a meat deli that opened in 2003, shut its doors a decade later. The same owner opened Char Bar, also with a meat-centric menu, at the beginning of the following year.