Judaism
Remembering the Unshakable Jewishness of “The Nanny”
Jewish television characters have historically been outliers.
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Our Loss: We Still Don’t Know How to Mourn Jewish Celebrities
It’s a disservice to remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a feminist icon but erase her Jewishness.
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“An American Pickle” Finds Humor in Uniquely Jewish Hardship
Seth Rogen embodies both his own Jewish present and a collective and just-out-of-reach Jewish past.
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Picketing Equality: Non-religious Queer Storylines Still Rule the TV Roost
We need more sophisticated storylines pertaining to religion and tolerance.
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In Bad Faith: Hallmark’s Jewish Stereotypes Meet America’s Rising Antisemitism
Hanukkah, as it exists to Hallmark, is just Christmas’s quirky ethnic sidekick.
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Scared Silly: Jenny Slate’s “Stage Fright” Gives New Meaning to the Phrase “Standing up to Fear”
Stage Fright is a distillation of how we live with and confront fear, and the lifelong process—and joy—of overcoming it.
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Intergenerational Trauma: #JewsAgainstICE Are Saying “Never Again” in the Face of Crisis
As a Jew committed to creating a different world, I know that it is our duty to prevent future generations from carrying state-inflicted trauma.
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Here, Now, Everywhere: Deborah E. Lipstadt’s New Book Charts the Resurgence of Antisemitism
Lipstadt’s uncompromising perspective is guaranteed to leave readers uneasy, no matter where they lie on the political spectrum.
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Nothing New: America’s Conveniently Forgotten History of Anti-Semitism Is Us
Although anti-Nazism permeates U.S. media and culture, this construction of America as inherently anti-Nazi is just that, a construction.
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