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The feature-length documentary “Step,” directed and produced by Lipitz, follows the first graduating class of an all-girls high school in inner-city Baltimore as they compete on the school’s step team and strive to be the first in their families to attend college.
Read MorePhoebe Stein is overseeing Maryland Humanities at a critical juncture in Baltimore’s — and the country’s — history.
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Actor Martin Landau arriving at the AARP Magazine 10th Annual Movies For Grownups Awards at the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., Feb. 7, 2011. (Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
Landau’s career took off after his appearance in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 film “North by Northwest.”
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Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen in the seventh season of “Game of Thrones.” (Macall B. Polay/HBO)
The much-anticipated seventh season of HBO’s hit series “Game of Thrones” premieres Sunday, July 16.
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Top left, clockwise, Emmy Awards nominees Carrie Fisher, Vanessa Bayer, Mandy Patinkin and Tracee Ellis Ross (Getty Images)
The awards for TV excellence will be presented Sept. 8 on CBS.
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Gershon Leizerson and The Yiddish Blues Drifters playing at the Yiddish Summer Weimar Festival in Weimar, Germany. (Maoz Fistuch)
Here are five Jewish cultural festivals that will take you through to the end of summer and beyond.
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Jeanette Chawki, far right, teaches League of Kitchens workshop participants how to cook Lebanese food. (Josefin Dolsten)
Lisa Gross, who founded the League of Kitchens in 2014, said providing ways for people to interact with immigrants has taken on an added significance following the election of Donald Trump.
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Jay-Z performing at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, Oct. 20, 2015. (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for TIDAL)
Jay-Z’s defenders say the lyric is typical of his use of exaggerated stereotypes to make broader points about social problems.
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Molly Yeh has taken the food blogging world by storm with her bubbly personality and creative recipes. (Chantell Quernemoen)
“Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago and living in New York, it didn’t even strike me as a possibility that a place could really exist without tons of Jews,” Yeh said.
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Patti LuPone, in her role as the cosmetics mogul Helena Rubinstein in the Broadway musical "War Paint," performing at the Tony Awards in New York City, June 11, 2017. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions)
In addition to Helena Rubinstein, LuPone played a rabbi in the CW series “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” the Jewish sister-in-law of Robert De Niro’s title character in “The Comedian” (2016) and the social-climbing Atlanta Jewish daughter-in-law Florine in “Driving Miss Daisy” (1989).
Read MorePeople are putting avocados in everything lately: brownies, salad dressing, even ice cream.
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