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A Brooklyn venue celebrates the gender-bending legacy of Barbra Streisand’s ‘Yentl’

With a performance by drag artist Simply Barbra, a screening by The Neighborhood emphasizes the movie musical’s Jewish, feminist and queer themes.

By Elizabeth Karpen February 21, 2025 10:00 am

After fighting cancer, klezmer legend Frank London is busier than ever

After six months of treatment and recovery, the Jewish trumpeter, composer and musical omnivore is back, starting new musical projects and playing shows.

February 18, 2025 8:57 am

Kanye West, back on X again, says he is ‘not under Jewish control anymore’

Ye also defended selling swastika shirts on his website.

February 18, 2025 5:52 am

Netflix’s ‘Apple Cider Vinegar’ features a Jewish-run ‘cancer clinic.’ What is it?

By Andrew Lapin February 14, 2025 3:34 pm

Kanye’s swastika shirt inspires a flurry of defiant Jewish spinoffs

By Philissa Cramer February 13, 2025 3:56 pm

Joaquin Phoenix (left) and Ilana Glazer. (Getty Images)

Joaquin Phoenix and Ilana Glazer among hundreds of Jews who ‘say no to ethnic cleansing’ in Gaza in full-page NYT ad

By Ben Sales February 13, 2025 11:56 am

Macklemore’s latest anti-Israel music video, ‘F—ed up,’ places the West Bank and Holocaust side-by-side

By Ben Sales February 12, 2025 4:28 pm

Ideas

I liked the AI Jews-against-Kanye video — and we should all be terrified of it

By Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin February 12, 2025 3:03 pm

In AI video, Jewish celebrities from Scarlett Johansson to Adam Sandler give Kanye the middle finger

By Philissa Cramer February 11, 2025 8:48 pm

Prominent Israeli writers and US Jewish leaders rally behind east Jerusalem bookstore that was raided by police

By Ben Sales February 11, 2025 5:31 pm

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A Brooklyn venue celebrates the gender-bending legacy of Barbra Streisand’s ‘Yentl’

After fighting cancer, klezmer legend Frank London is busier than ever

Kanye West, back on X again, says he is ‘not under Jewish control anymore’

Netflix’s ‘Apple Cider Vinegar’ features a Jewish-run ‘cancer clinic.’ What is it?

Kanye’s swastika shirt inspires a flurry of defiant Jewish spinoffs

Joaquin Phoenix and Ilana Glazer among hundreds of Jews who ‘say no to ethnic cleansing’ in Gaza in full-page NYT ad

Macklemore’s latest anti-Israel music video, ‘F—ed up,’ places the West Bank and Holocaust side-by-side

I liked the AI Jews-against-Kanye video — and we should all be terrified of it

In AI video, Jewish celebrities from Scarlett Johansson to Adam Sandler give Kanye the middle finger

Prominent Israeli writers and US Jewish leaders rally behind east Jerusalem bookstore that was raided by police

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