Gabe Friedman
Author and native New Yorker Sarah Seltzer, left, and the cover of her debut novel "The Singer Sisters." (Kurt Sneddon/Flatiron Books)
August 7, 2024, 10:34 pm
In ‘The Singer Sisters,’ a Jewish folk music family makes it big from Greenwich Village to Lilith Fair
Sarah Seltzer’s debut novel is full of familial drama, rock music history and lots of Yiddishkeit.
By Gabe Friedman
Kanye West seen in Los Angeles, May 13, 2023. (MEGA/GC Images)
December 13, 2023, 4:17 pm
Kanye West’s album with antisemitic lyric on track to debut Friday
Album has a long list of famous collaborators
By Gabe Friedman
Israeli security forces stand next to ambulances waiting outside the helipad of Tel Aviv's Schneider medical center, as they prepare to receive hostages released from Gaza, Nov. 24, 2023. (Fadel Senna/AFP via Getty Images)
November 25, 2023, 8:13 pm
13 Israeli hostages are freed from Gaza as ceasefire holds; more expected in coming days
39 Palestinian prisoners were also released
By Gabe Friedman
Jewish pilgrims gather to pray in Uman, Ukraine, Sept. 12, 2023.. (Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
September 14, 2023, 9:10 pm
Thousands of Jews flock to Uman for Rosh Hashanah pilgrimage despite wartime warnings
The annual Rosh Hashanah pilgrimage that pays tribute to the influential Hasidic Rabbi Nachman of Breslov.
By Gabe Friedman
Pinchas Goldschmidt in Munich, May 30, 2022. (Sven Hoppe/picture alliance via Getty Images)
July 7, 2023, 4:10 pm
Russia labels Moscow’s former chief rabbi a ‘foreign agent’
The designation cannot be contested in court and bars those assigned it from participating in many aspects of public life in Russia.
By Gabe Friedman
Josh Young as Shlomo Carlebach and Nya Trysha as Nina Simone in a filmed version of "Soul Doctor." (Yakir Bezalel)
June 9, 2023, 2:32 pm
‘Soul Doctor,’ the Shlomo Carlebach-Nina Simone musical, to hit US theaters
The show does not reckon with the allegations of sexual misconduct first raised against Carlebach in 1998.
By Gabe Friedman
Dina Shihabi, center, stars in "Ghosts of Beirut." (Sifeddine Elamine/Showtime.)
May 19, 2023, 9:26 am
‘Fauda’ creators debut Showtime series about Mossad’s killing of master terrorist
The four-episode series dramatizes the rise and impact of Imad Mughniyeh, the former Hezbollah leader accused of planning international attacks starting in the 1980s.
By Gabe Friedman
Jason Schwartzman (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Variety/Penske Media via Getty Images)
May 11, 2023, 3:03 pm
Carol Kane is Jason Schwartzman’s bat mitzvah student in new comedy
"It’s the story of a cantor who is locked in a crisis of faith and finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life."
By Gabe Friedman
An office window shows coronation posters in Golders Green, a heavily Jewish neighborhood of London, May 2, 2023. (Deborah Danan)
May 4, 2023, 4:11 pm
All the Jewish details of King Charles’ coronation
From Shabbat accommodations to Jerusalem oil
By Deborah Danan and Gabe Friedman
Kevin Janssens, second from right, as Noah Wolfson in "Rough Diamonds." (Screenshot from YouTube)
April 28, 2023, 8:45 am
‘Rough Diamonds’ brings viewers into Antwerp’s Orthodox diamond district
Co-creators Rotem Shamir and Yuval Yefet, both Israeli, worked together on the Israeli military thriller “Fauda"
By Gabe Friedman
Talking Heads' David Byrne, Seymour Stein and Madonna (Photo by KMazur/WireImage)
April 4, 2023, 12:28 pm
Seymour Stein, Jewish music mogul who discovered Madonna and The Ramones, dies at 80
“He knows all the lyrics to every song you’ve ever heard,” said Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders.
By Gabe Friedman
Women enter a Jewish restaurant in central Athens, March 28, 2023. Greek police sources said they arrested two men who targeted the building. (Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP via Getty Images)
March 29, 2023, 4:51 pm
Greece arrests 2 men suspected of planning attacks on Jewish sites in Athens
The Mossad said that the men, who are Pakistani nationals, are also part of an Iranian terror network.
By Gabe Friedman
Oscar Isaac plays the titular character in a revival of Lorraine Hansberry's "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window" at theBAM Harvey Theater in Brooklyn, N.Y. (Julieta Cervantes)
March 1, 2023, 12:42 pm
Lorraine Hansberry’s second play had a white Jewish protagonist. Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan are reviving it.
The play deals with questions about political activism, self-fulfillment in a capitalist world, and racial and ethnic identity — including mid-century Jewish American identity.
By Gabe Friedman
Helen Mirren as Golda Meir in Guy Nattiv's film "Golda." (Jasper Wolf)
February 22, 2023, 6:40 pm
A Golda Meir biopic starring Helen Mirren avoids politics
It premiered as Israel’s government faces widespread scrutiny.
By Gabe Friedman
Sec. of State Antony Blinken (U.S. Department of State, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
February 1, 2023, 10:55 am
Antony Blinken quotes from Jewish prayer during crucial Israel visit
Blinken arrived in Israel days after a deadly Palestinian terror attack outside a Jerusalem synagogue.
By Gabe Friedman
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