Life of area composer Simon Sargon was one of music, Jewish inspiration
For Simon Sargon’s 80th birthday in 2018, his synagogue, Temple Sinai, held a concert.
Fifteen cantors, three instrumentalists and 175 volunteer singers were there to...
2022 was a big year for Jews in the arts
By Andrew Lapin | JTA
Once more for the record, Dave Chappelle: Jews don’t really run Hollywood. But anyone paying attention in 2022 saw a...
How a kibbutznik became a coach for the Cincinnati Reds
By Elli Wohlgelernter | J TA
KIBBUTZ GEZER, Israel — Bill James, the influential baseball writer, historian and statistician, once described the great Yankees first...
Longtime Northern Virginia residents Susan and Shawn Dilles counter conventional wisdom in new book
Before Susan and Shawn Dilles moved to the Washington area in the 1980s, a relative gave them a piece of advice.
“Jews don’t go to...
Public menorah-lightings withstand controversy, antisemitism, pandemic
The crowd for this year’s National Menorah lighting in Washington, D.C., is expected to exceed 4,000 guests. That’s the estimate of Rabbi Levi Shemtov,...
How Jews became white
Review
“Bad Jews: A History of American Jewish Politics and Identities”
by Emily Tamkin. New York: HarperCollins, 2022.
256 pages | $28.99.
In her introduction, author Emily...
Raskin, Tannen speak at Beth El in Alexandria
As lead impeachment manager, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) headed the effort to convict President Donald Trump in his second Senate trial.
That 2021 impeachment, like...
What’s so funny about antisemitism?
Alex Edelman is tired. He just flew home to New York on a red-eye. About halfway through a recent Zoom conversation, he pulled out...
Raven Schwam-Curtis uses TikTok for Jewish and Black activism
Last Chanukah, Raven Schwam-Curtis made a big discovery.
“There was this really nice Chanukah audio trending at the time. I made a video dancing...
Inside the surprisingly Jewish world of ‘Tár’
By Andrew Lapin
In the first 10 minutes of the new film “Tár,” a conductor played by Cate Blanchett discusses the Hebrew concepts of “teshuvah”...
