Shopping Guide: Pretty in Pink
Despite those rumors that millennial pink has run its course, spring 2018 runways told a different story.
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Arts & Life
Meditation is among the activities in which people can immerse themselves, says Beth Gansky, co-founder of Rey'im. (file photo)
Jewish Groups Increasingly Incorporating Mindfulness into Their Practices
Mindfulness is increasingly observed and incorporated more openly into the fabric of the mainstream Jewish community across the denominational and congregational divide.
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Mandy Patinkin at a ceremony honoring him with the 2,629th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood, Calif., Feb. 12, 2018. (Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)
Mandy Patinkin: Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Better Than a Bar Mitzvah
Mandy Patinkin’s Hollywood Star acceptance speech on Feb. 12 was sprinkled with stories of Jewish moments and Jewish people.
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Beauty Beat: Springing Forth in Style
Here are five ways to freshen up your beauty regimen just in time for the warm weather we’re anxiously awaiting.
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Why ‘Black Panther’ Might Also be a Milestone in Black-Jewish Relations
Stan Lee and Kirby’s Black Panther character debuted in July of 1966, in a Fantastic Four comic strip (he would get his own series later in the ’70s).
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Jessi Silverman: "After the election last year, the show took on new meaning for me. ... It’s a way to bring people together to collaborate and push for change." (Courtesy photo)
Hopkins Presents ‘Vagina Monologues’ as V-Day Movement Turns 20
Jessi Silverman, a master’s degree candidate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, talks about the mission behind JHU’s 10th annual production of “The Vagina Monologues.”
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The Shape of Water in Crabtown, USA
While the once-and-future Baltimore will always be as real as a broken water main on your way home, the time in which this drippy love story is set might be as good as it ever gets in our fair and stubborn town.
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Mathematical, astronomical, and scientific treatises are among the Islamic manuscripts from the National Library of Israel on display at New York University. (National Library of Israel/Ardon Bar-Hama)
National Library of Israel Brings Rare, Ancient Manuscripts to NYU
The illustrated and illuminated manuscripts in Persian, Arabic, Turkish and Hebrew include a Royal Quran from the personal library of an Ottoman sultan. It is the largest ever display of National Library of Israel artifacts outside of the country.
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Jewish Food Does not Begin and End with Kosher
In the age of identity politics, amid a changing American religious landscape, we need more reflection, not less, on the everyday practices that define who we are, in private and public.
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A shot of Christopher Reeve’s Superman costume, on display at a Christie’s auction house in London in 2003. (Ian Walton/Getty Images)
DC Comics’ Newest Writer is Poised to Make Superman Jewish Again
Brian Michael Bendis will start drawing new comic books with the iconic superhero in May. He happens to be the product of a strictly Orthodox Jewish day school in Cleveland.
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Visions of Johanna: “If you ask me about my identity, Jewish is the first thing that comes to mind. It’s just who I am,” says "Holes" director Johanna Gruenhut. (File photo)
Everyman Champions Every Woman in Salon Series
Everman Theatre’s Salon Series reaches out to women playwrights and audiences.
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