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‘White Bird’ stars Helen Mirren as a Holocaust survivor who teaches her grandson about kindness

The major motion picture is an adaptation of ‘Wonder’ author R.J. Palacio’s graphic novel of the same name.

By Shira Li Bartov October 4, 2024 10:00 am

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Globetrotter book cover and team photo

How Harlem Globetrotters founder Abe Saperstein shaped basketball as we know it today

Saperstein, a Jewish immigrant from England, is the shortest man in the basketball hall of fame.

October 3, 2024 10:00 am

How Oct. 7 changed the meaning of Zionism

What we talk about when we talk about ‘Zionism’: A roundtable

Few words have been as scrutinized, debated, embraced and demonized in the year since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel.

October 2, 2024 1:47 pm

How Oct. 7 changed us

‘Devastating,’ ‘difficult,’ ‘depressing’: JTA readers on their year since Oct. 7, in one word

By JTA Staff October 2, 2024 10:35 am

"Bookfluencer" Zibby Owens, right, is the editor and publisher of a new, post-Oct. 7 anthology, "On Being Jewish Now." (Courtesy Zibby Media)

Literary powerhouse Zibby Owens takes aim at antisemitism with her new anthology, ‘On Being Jewish Now’

By Lisa Keys October 1, 2024 5:01 pm

How US Jewish communities are marking anniversary of Oct. 7 attack: with heartache, and warily

By Jacob Gurvis October 1, 2024 10:30 am

Notice to Quit

In ‘Notice to Quit,’ Mrs. Maisel’s husband Michael Zegen plays another unlikably likable Jew

By Lisa Keys October 1, 2024 9:30 am

How Oct. 7 changed everything

September 30, 2024 5:32 pm

How Oct. 7 changed language

In a year of ‘no words,’ Oct. 7 changed the Jewish vocabulary

By Andrew Silow-Carroll September 30, 2024 5:30 pm

Author Ta-Nehisi Coates is seen onstage at a conference on June 7, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Carol Lee Rose/Getty Images)

Ta-Nehisi Coates’ new book compares Israel’s treatment of Palestinians to the Jim Crow South

By Ben Sales September 30, 2024 2:57 pm

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