Reel Mensch Studio pivots creatively to meet new needs in the COVID era
By Jared Paull (AJNews) – Reel Mensch Studio celebrated our tenth year in business by involuntarily conducting an experiment: What would happen if we went…
Arts
Writing poetry helps me process the unspeakable evils of the Holocaust
by Menachem Z. Rosensaft (JTA) — Not long after the gruesome reality of the Holocaust had burst onto the world’s consciousness, the philosopher and social…
New Yom Hashoah ritual aims to bridge Holocaust remembrance to a post-survivor world
by Shira Hanau (JTA) — Holocaust remembrance day programs in Jewish communities have stuck to a familiar form for decades, featuring Holocaust survivors sharing their…
JFSC online Speaker Series offers a message of hope
by JFSC staff (AJNews) – Over the past year of living biblically, we’ve experienced floods, fires, plague. We’ve been forced to recognize that what we…
Meet the 27-year-old amplifying sounds of the Borscht Belt (& listen to his favourite Yiddish songs)
by Andrew Silow-Carroll (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Growing up, Aaron Bendich would spend lots of time with his grandfather Max in the…