The Atlantic
The Quandary of Illustrating Anne Frank
A graphic adaptation of the teenage Holocaust victim’s diary calls into question which avenues are best for retelling painful, complicated histories.
FAST COMPANY
How to Reach Out to Coworkers After Being Laid Off
It can feel awkward, but here’s how to ensure you don’t lose those friendships and professional connections.
Dance Magazine
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Indiana University Removes Offensive Caricatures in New Productions of The Nutcracker and La Bayadère (Higher Ed column / DECEMBER 2023 issue)
How can we reimagine classics to center a variety of voices and speak to diverse audiences
Five College Dance Groups Five Distinct Dance Departments Into One Unique Program (Higher Ed column / NOVEMBER 2023 issue)
One of the highlights of the collaboration is an annual repertory project—like this year’s staging of Lucinda Childs’ 1979 Dance 1 featuring dancers from across the five campuses.
The Ailey/Fordham Dance BFA Turns 25 (Higher Ed column / OCTOBER 2023 issue)
“It was pretty radical to create a program that was both serious about dance and serious about academics,” says Ana Marie Forsythe, a longtime Ailey School teacher who helped launch the program.
Majors and Minors That Enrich a Dance Degree (Feature / OCTOBER 2023 issue)
For many dancers, the right college path is a mixed one, where dance is one component in a combination of majors and minors. These recent grads paired dance with Spanish, international affairs, health and human sciences, psychology, biomedical sciences, computer science, global cultural studies, and film.
Dwight Rhoden Brings Contemporary Ballet and Professional Connections to Chapman University (Higher Ed column / SEPTEMBER 2023 issue)
Even as Rhoden continues on in his role as founding artistic director and resident choreographer of Complexions Contemporary Ballet, he takes on a new one as a faculty member.
Meet 4 High-Profile Pros Who Have Launched an Online Platform to Support Other Dancing Mothers (Feature / MAY 2023 issue)
Ingrid Silva, Grace Whitworth, Xin Ying and Allison DeBona believe in the power of turning to fellow dance moms for support—and in the possibility of reshaping the dance world to make it easier for those who come after them.
Dancer-Turned-Documentarian Paul Michael Bloodgood Focuses His Lens on the Making of Ballet Austin’s Light / The Holocaust & Humanity Project (APRIL 2023 issue)
The film revisits the making of Light in the hopes of spreading its universal themes—of hope and the protection of human rights in the face of hatred and bigotry—to a broader audience.
The Forward
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If you thought her first bat mitzvah was trailblazing, wait till you hear about her second
At 83, Ruth Messinger stepped up to the bimah — just like she did 70 years ago.
An Israeli artist poses a bold question — what if Othello wasn’t at the center of Othello
Tel Aviv-based artist Hilla Ben Ari reimagines José Limón’s The Moor’s Pavane by focusing on the key women characters.
Why an Israel-born comic is hoping his latest act becomes irrelevant as soon as possible
For Shahak Shapira, there is power and relief in responding to the war with comedy.
A Jewish Family Story About Defending a Kibbutz in 1948 Takes on New Meaning
Before the war broke out, Brother’s Keeper was intended to be a comic book honoring a filmmaker’s grandfather.
The First Anthology of Writing About the War Is an Outpouring of Poetry and Anguish
Rabbi Menachem Creditor’s Am Yisrael Chai: Essays, Poems, and Prayers was born out of the blur that followed Oct. 7.
After the Massacre, a Profound Abyss That One Tel Aviv Tattoo Artist Is Trying to Fill With Art
Inbal Hoffman used holes as a motif in her tattoos. After the Hamas attacks on Israel, they appeared in a new series of illustrations.
Beyond ‘The Golden Bachelor’: 6 Jewish Couples Who Found Love Later in Life
Some have been married several times. Some don’t want to ever marry again. But these couples all found love.
‘Oh Wow, This Is Gonna Be Good’ — How It Feels to Watch Yourself Grow Up in 29 Minutes Flat
Ella Rosenblatt is the star of How Do You Measure a Year, directed by her Oscar-nominated filmmaker dad.
The Klezmer Band Playing as the Bullets Started Flying Can’t Go Back to Highland Park This July 4
Though the band and the city, now more than ever, share a profound connection, Maxwell Street will not play a parade in Highland Park. No one will.
Inspired by His Grandparents’ Tragic Holocaust Story, a Director Imbues His Latest Hit Film With Passion and Joy
Cédric Klapisch’s Rise is the antithesis of Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan.
‘Bridgerton’ Mastermind and ‘Queen Charlotte’ Author Also Makes a Mean Matzo Ball Soup
Julia Quinn talks Golda Rosheuvel’s phenomenal facial expressions, romance fundamentals, diversity and representation, matzo balls, and more.
A Is for Apron Belly, B is for Birthmark: How One Jewish Artist Celebrates All Kinds of Bodies
Tyler Feder wants to normalize a more accurate depiction of society as it truly is, rather than focusing on one small slice of it.
What Happened to All the Women in Those A Cappella Hanukkah Videos?
When it comes to viral holiday content, sometimes it can seem like a man’s world out there.
Can This Noisemaker Rattle the World Out of Its Complacency?
To the “Bans Off Our Bodies” rally in downtown Los Angeles, artist Elana Mann brought rattles emblazoned with words like “choice,” “change,” “rage,” “united,” “truth,” and “power.”
An Ashkenazi Jew, a New Orleans Native Living in Harlem — and the Beginning of a Beautiful Collaboration
Alyson Richman and Shaunna J. Edwards have joined forces to write The Thread Collectors.
Facing the Greatest Challenge of His Life, a Beloved Artist and Teacher Is Taking a Leap of Faith
After suffering a stroke in 2021, Zvi Gotheiner has been determined to make his way back to the movement and dance—and community—that bring him so much joy.
How the War Already Changed the Meaning of One Artist’s Childhood — and Her Painting
Before the war, Kyiv-born, Israel-based artist Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi painted nostalgic images of her childhood; they don't seem the same anymore.
As In-Person Seders Return, Some Vulnerable Jews Are Being Left Behind
Many American Jews are gearing up for the large, in-person Seders they knew before 2020, but for at-risk populations, the dangers are too great.
How Jewish Women Helped Pioneer the Fitness Movement (for Better and Worse)
In “Let’s Get Physical: How Women Discovered Fitness and Reshaped the World,” Danielle Friedman traces the rise of women’s exercise and exercise culture.
She’s Found a New Way to Keep Holocaust Stories Alive — One Step at a Time
Rachel Linsky, a young, Boston-based choreographer, launched ZACHOR, an ongoing effort to honor and preserve the stories of Holocaust survivors through dance.
After a House Is Destroyed in a Fire, a Jewish Artist Finds a Way to Preserve Its Spirit
“This won’t fix the tremendous loss,” said Meg Adler, a Jewish educator, poet, and artist. But “it will hopefully allow folks to mourn and honor their memories.”
How These Intimate Family Photos Helped to Bridge a Trump-Era Divide
In Family Matters, photographer Gillian Laub documents her family’s struggle to contend with a political divide and a pandemic.
The Atypical Ascent of Choreographer Claudia Schreier
Schreier’s path to a career in ballet choreography isn’t just atypical in that she attended a prestigious university rather than dancing in an elite company. It’s also still rare for Black women to be onstage with those ballet companies, let alone to make the works presented.
Does America Still Sound “Beautiful?” Reinventing a Patriotic Anthem in Seemingly Non-Patriotic Times
More than 70 composers join together to reimagine America the Beautiful for 2021.
How One Dance Lover Is Preserving the Jewish History of Ballet—One Blog Entry at a Time
“I started to have a bit more of a mission,” said Beatrice Waterhouse. “I wanted to reveal to Jews and to non-Jews that we were present and our Jewishness mattered in this little slice of history that I loved so much.”
The Meteoric Rise of the A Cappella Hanukkah Video—How a Holiday Force Awakened
Ten years ago Hanukkah came and went without much to-do on YouTube. But then, a viral hit changed things, making a cappella almost as much a part of Hanukkah as latkes and dreidels.
At Alabama’s Legacy Museum, Echoes Of Holocaust Remembrance
The Equal Justice Initiative’s museum and memorial, which is particularly evocative of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, develop existing commemorative trends—and take them a step further.
Staging Holocaust Stories Proves Therapeutic for Witness Theater
As the number of Holocaust survivors dwindles, Witness Theater offers a new approach to preserving their stories—matching them with teens to dramatize their lives.
Newsweek (SELECT CLIPS)
The Last Nazi Hunter (Cover Story)
Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff has spent four decades doggedly chasing Holocaust criminals. With most of the perpetrators either dead or too frail to face trial, his pursuit led him to a new chapter in Lithuania.
China’s One-Child Policy and American Adoptees
For thousands of Chinese adoptees and their families, the news that China was ending its one-child policy was deeply personal.
“Good Girls Revolt”: The Feminist Legacy of a Newsweek Lawsuit
Until 46 women sued the magazine for gender discrimination in 1970, “tradition” dictated that “women don’t write at Newsweek.”
The Lost Keith Haring Mural in Manhattan
More than 30 years ago, street artist Keith Haring painted a three-story mural in a Catholic youth center in Manhattan. Now, its future is unclear.
The Father of the Anti-Vaccine Movement Responds to Measles Outbreak
Andrew Wakefield, the man behind the anti-vaccine movement, is mad as hell, and still convinced he's right.
AMNY
Tenement Museum “Bedrooms” Tour Offers a Look into Intimate, Turn-of-the-20th-Century Spaces
A special evening program delves into the intimate questions that curious visitors have long asked (or perhaps longed to ask) about sex, birth control, prostitution and childbirth around the turn of the 19th century.
Newsday (SELECT CLIPS)
Daughter’s Rare Form of Albinism Turns Mother Into a Tireless Advocate
After her daughter Ashley was diagnosed with albinism and Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome in 1992, Donna Appell founded Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome Network, Inc. , a non-profit.
San FRancisco Chronicle (SELECT CLIPS)
Users Add Chapters to a New Type of Tale
"The Silent History" is an app/novel that offers not only daily serial installments of a book, but also "field reports" in which some readers provide their own tangential "chapters" to the story.
The Muse (SELECT CLIPS)
We’re All More “Toxic Aware” in 2023
“Toxic aware” means you recognize unhealthy patterns, believe you deserve better, and pursue change for yourself and even for others.
What to Do If Your Company Has Been Silent About George Floyd, Protests, and Racism in America
If you’ve been waiting for your organization to say or do enough—or anything at all—in the wake of George Floyd’s murder to no avail, here’s what you can do.
Why Great Students Don’t Necessarily Make Great Employees
You might be in for a rude awakening when you realize you can’t rely on the same assumptions, rules, and paths to success you’ve been trained for years to follow.
A Guide to Using Pronouns and Other Gender-Inclusive Language in the Office
Because you don’t want to be that guy. I mean, that person.
A Surprising Way to Decrease Gender Bias in Performance Reviews
New research finds that changing the scale could eliminate the gender gap in performance reviews.
As an African American Ballet Star, Lauren Anderson Inspired the Next Generation
The first African American principal dancer at Houston Ballet in 1990, Anderson dedicated her career after the stage to teaching, and to diversity in ballet.