"A Shanda Since 1971"
On the night of May 31st, 300 New Yorkers—Jewish, gentile, religious, spiritual, and secular—gathered at Public Records for DJ Chaia’s Yiddish Electronic album release party. The long-awaited album is her first full-length work of kleztronica. “An emerging genre” spearheaded by Chaia, kleztronica “combines techno with Yiddish music to create a joyous rave-space infused with Yiddish…
Daisy Friedman is an up-and-coming writer/director whose most recent film, Unholy, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this year. The film follows a young woman, Noa, as she navigates her family’s Passover seder with a gastrointestinal disorder that requires a feeding tube. In her own words, “Unholy is a film about what it means to…
October 8: The Fight for the Soul of America was released on March 14th in theaters nationwide. The film chronicles an obtusely one-sided narrative of the rise of antisemitism on social media and US American college campuses in the aftermath of the Al-Aqsa Flood attacks. Against a backdrop of sinister orchestral music and b-roll from…