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Larry David at a Los Angeles Lakers game at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Nov. 15, 2019. (Kevork S. Djansezian/Getty Images)
April 22, 2025, 1:51 pm
Larry David’s ‘My Dinner with Adolf’ essay skewers Bill Maher’s meeting with Trump
The Jewish comedian has long made Nazi references in his satire.
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
A scene from “Trayf” by Lindsay Joelle, a 2017 finalist in the Jewish Plays Project's Jewish Playwriting Contest Finalists. (Theater J / Teresa Wood)
April 9, 2025, 10:15 am
Jewish cultural institutions reeling as Trump defunds arts and humanities
The shuttering of federal agencies that support museums and arts organizations could cause a ripple effect in lost funding, Jewish arts administrators say.
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Hillel Academy of Pittsburgh first graders surround cookies spelling their prize-winning word, m’ichon, and some squishy inspirations. (Photo courtesy of Hillel Academy of Pittsburgh)
February 24, 2025, 2:22 pm
Hillel Academy takes top prize in international Hebrew word challenge
With creation of "מעיכון," Pittsburgh Jewish day school students make meaning of language
By Adam Reinherz
Sarah Aroeste and Susan Barocas hold biscochos, classic Sephardic cookies. (Photo courtesy of Susan Barocas)
January 27, 2025, 3:24 pm
Sephardic traditions take center stage with culinary and musical weekend
'Sephardic culture is so vibrant, and it's so alive. It really is living history in a way that people just don't know about'
By Adam Reinherz
A lawn chair sits as nature takes over the indoor pool area of Grossinger's Catskill Resort Hotel on July 5, 2012 in Liberty, New York. The hotel, closed since 1986, is one of many Borscht Belt hotels that shut down over the years. (John Moore/Getty Images)
January 7, 2025, 2:04 pm
The Borscht Belt hotels were cornerstones of Jewish family life that have no real replacement
A Jewish nonprofit executive argues for a contemporary successor to the Catskills, where families can be together in a low-key way.
By Sara Fredman Aeder
Attendees wear hats reading "Make America Pray Again" before former U.S. President and 2024 presidential hopeful Donald Trump addresses Christian broadcasters at the National Religious Broadcasters International Christian Media Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, on Feb. 22, 2024. (Kevin Wurm/AFP via Getty Images)
November 6, 2024, 12:21 pm
What Christian nationalism has in store for Jews and other religious minorities
Christian nationalists, who make up a segment of Donald Trump’s base, are working to pull the country in a direction that scholars agree isn’t very hospitable for Jews.
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Love and marriage. (Credit: Hoang Dong Photo/Pixabay)
August 16, 2024, 1:42 pm
Online AI-powered Jewish speed-dating event hopes to draw 5,000 people
The event, held hours after Tu B’Av (the “Day of Love”) bills itself as the “biggest speed-dating event ever.”
By Howard Blas
Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff affixes a mezuzah at the vice president’s residence in Washington, D.C., in 2021. (Photo courtesy of The White House)
August 16, 2024, 9:25 am
A mezuzah in a Harris-Emhoff White House? It might not be the first.
Doug Emhoff said he’d put a mezuzah in the White House. Whether Jewish law requires him to is a matter of dispute.
By Unitha Cherry, Louis Keene | Forward
'Bachelorette' Jenn Tran gives a rose to Jewish contestant Jeremy Simon. (Disney/John Fleenor)
August 15, 2024, 5:18 pm
A ‘Bachelorette’ contestant this season is the great-great-grandson of the last chief rabbi of Kovno
“Honestly the idea of Jewish-Buddhist kids sounds fun. I feel like it would be fun with you.”
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Leslie Howard as Sir Percy Blakeney with Merle Oberon as Lady Blakeney in “The Scarlet Pimpernel” (1934) (Tunbridge photo for London Films, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
August 13, 2024, 6:27 pm
Did ‘The Scarlet Pimpernel’ inspire Raoul Wallenberg’s Holocaust heroism?
Wallenberg saw an anti-Nazi remake about the superhero with a double life. ‘Pimpernel’ also inspired Stan Lee and Larry David
By Beth Harpaz
Portrait of Gertrude Stein (Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
September 21, 2023, 11:37 am
She was an outsider, a Jew and an iconoclastic artist — kind of like Picasso
A new exhibit in Paris explores the friendship between Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso
By Mervyn Rothstein
Image courtesy of Film Pittsburgh.
March 27, 2023, 10:11 am
JFilm celebrates three decades of showcasing independent Jewish films
“We would not be here and have the stature that we have in the Jewish film festival world if it were not for the Jewish community of Pittsburgh,”
By David Rullo
(Photo by Rodnae via Pexels)
March 16, 2023, 10:20 am
Jews win religion popularity contest in new poll
Jews like themselves and so do other people, according to the Pew Research Center
By Adam Kovac
Adriana Fernandez is a non-Jewish nanny to Jewish children in Boca Raton, Florida. (Photo courtesy of Adriana Fernandez)
December 6, 2022, 1:39 pm
‘Non-Jewish Nanny’ to Orthodox children becomes a social media sensation
Adriana Fernandez can pronounce Pesach perfectly, and is well-versed in the rules of “shomer negiah” and “tznius.”
By Alan Zeitlin
There's no question, you're about to hear something special. Photo of DJ Digital Dave at DJ Collective by Phillip Van Nostrand
November 7, 2022, 11:32 am
When it comes to tunes, golden oldies still shining at Pittsburgh parties
Requests for tracks like "It's Tricky" and "Dancing Queen" are giving DJs "double vision," but past hits are current "bangers"
By Adam Reinherz
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