Review: “These and Those” Tests The Limits of Jewish Safety

By Sophie Hurwitz June 7, 2022

A new play by Ruth Geye paints a critical, intimate portrait of a modern orthodox student Shabbat lunch, asking, “how much are we willing to mutilate our souls in the pursuit of safety?”

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Falling in Love, Disabled and On Screen

By Daisy Friedman May 5, 2022

The student filmmaker behind the upcoming short film “Unconditional” tells the story of an interabled lesbian couple’s first intimate evening – and the experiences at Jewish summer camp that inspired her script.

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“God of Vengeance”: A Seminal Script in the Fight to Reclaim Jewish Identity

By Noga Levy-Rapoport May 3, 2022

A play written by Sholem Asch in 1906 hasn’t stopped being relevant to questions of Jewish identity – especially for queer Jews.

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Welcome to the Jewish Underground Press: Zine Review Series

By Miranda Sullivan July 13, 2021

Our zine review columnist Miranda Sullivan introduces herself — and the Jewish zine-scene of summer 2021.

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Living Memory of the Jewish Left: A Jewish Currents Fellowship Reflection

By Chaya Holch and Miriam Saperstein January 11, 2021

Two New Voices Fellows discuss their year working with Jewish Currents, weaving memory about the Jewish Left through the eyes of the magazine’s lineage of writers and editors.

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Batman v Superman: Exodus

By Josh Weiss July 20, 2015

San Diego Comic-Con ended last week, and it did not disappoint. There were previews of the movies and TV shows being added to pop culture in the coming months, including a behind-the-scenes featurette of Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, and a number of longer-than-usual trailers for DC and Marvel superhero properties such as…

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Dance Dance Resurrection

By Derek M. Kwait February 4, 2015

I’m a member of that niche demographic who is really excited by the idea of a dance performance inspired by Jewish text study, and luckily for me, this is essentially the premise behind Sydney Schiff Dance Project’s signature work Dry Bones: Resurrection of the Living. Sydney Schiff graduated from Princeton University in 2010 with a…

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Spielberg’s Jews: Revisiting ‘Schindler’s List’ on Yom HaShoah

By John Propper April 7, 2013

It has been pointed out that director Steven Spielberg’s mainstream success has inspired a turn toward broad, “public interest” works. For Spielberg, pop-history and film preservation have taken precedent over purely artistic endeavors. If one were to mark this shift in Spielberg’s career, it likely started with the Holocaust drama “Schindler’s List,” for which the…

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From Cats to Hamas: an Interview with Jenna Gang

By Catie Damon February 6, 2013

On the first day of Ulpan, Jenna Gang showed us the tattoo of her Hebrew name printed on the back of her neck. From then on, we called her Yosefa. We lived together in a cramped apartment in Jerusalem, she the established New York City photographer and I the aspiring California writer, both participating on…

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Zany, Heartfelt ‘Kathmandu’ Evokes the Soul of Jewish Culture in Nepal

By Gabe Weinstein December 5, 2012

Every Friday night thousands of backpackers, suburbanites and college students stream into Chabad Houses from Columbus to Cambodia. But before Chabad emissaries can clank their glasses of Johnnie Walker to a “gut Shabbos,” they have to learn where to find kosher meat at the local Kroger, or master the art of bartering for vegetables at…

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When it rains, it pours

By mmoncaster February 7, 2011

It’s been a fairly slow start to 2011 for Vancouver Hillel, at least from my perspective. No George Galloway or UBC student groups to stir things up. Perhaps the weather is to blame. Winter in the PNW is infamously drab, and the overcast skies have a tendency to dampen even the brightest spirits. But as…

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