Khantshe in Amerike’ was produced by, and starred Bessie Thomashevsky, grandmother of the late Michael Tilson Thomas ...

For years, I polished the brass plaques in front of my apartment dedicated to a Jewish mother and daughter who were murdered by the Nazis. Then a message out of the blue connected me to a surviving ...

Noam Bettan, Israel’s Eurovision candidate who took second place in the competition, sang in three languages, and chose to start his performance in Hebrew. Meanwhile, the winner — from Bulgaria — sang ...

Troy Sussman brings his own tradition to Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof with a full beard and dedication for the role in ...

English has long been pop music’s dominant language, but it no longer reigns supreme at the Eurovision Song Contest. There ...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is fending off criticism from Jewish leaders in the city over a video published Friday by his office that profiled a “Nakba survivor” whose Palestinian family left ...

The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene ...

Judy Chinitz’ son Alex, 32, has non-speaking autism. At age 25 he was in a daycare program where he mostly stared out the ...

The parsha opens with a census, an act that seems administrative on the surface, yet I find is profoundly therapeutic in its essence. The Torah is inviting us to examine our core beliefs that shape ...

Few voices in contemporary opera carry the weight of history quite like Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate. A citizen of the ...