Arts & Culture

It was spring 2021, the second year of the pandemic, and filmmakers Rachael DeCruz and Jeremy S. Levine were depressed. They were living in Alabama, a state with one of the lowest vaccination rates in...

Controversy swirled around "Jesus Christ Superstar" when it premiered on Broadway in 1971. Many Christians decried the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical, which turns Judas into a protagonist and Jesus into a supporting player and...

Boston, meet Uri Scheft’s tantalizing babka. And get ready to say hello to Ayal Shani’s world-class, Mediterranean-inspired whole roasted cauliflower. These are the signature dishes of two of Israel’s trendsetting chefs who’ve chosen Boston for...

BEVERLY – Samuel Bak, the renowned international artist, speaks in a language of images, dreamscapes, and colors. A child prodigy and Holocaust survivor, Bak tells his life’s stories through canvases rich in symbol, metaphor and...

SWAMPSCOTT – Rabbi Michael Ragozin was thrilled when Benjamin “Beni” Summers indicated an interest in joining Congregation Shirat Hayam as its rabbinic intern from October 2021 until June 2022. “This is an opportunity for CSH...

Live theater in Greater Boston staged a welcome comeback in 2021. The pandemic-challenged year began with Zoom and live-streamed productions. Still, eventually actual attendance – free in this case – returned with Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s...

BOSTON – For Noa Luz Barenblat, Anatevka is much more than the setting of “Fiddler on the Roof.” As the New York-based actress who plays Chava in the show’s tour explained in a recent interview,...

Just after the conclusion of Hanukkah, the Worcester Academy varsity girls’ basketball team prepared to face a rival private school. Head coach Sherry Levin addressed her team before tipoff. The theme of her pregame pep...

(JTA) — “A plus-sized Jewish lady redneck died in El Paso on Saturday.” It’s considered poor journalistic form to begin an article with a quotation. But journalists are also supposed to show, not tell, and...

From the first note of the first song in the remarkably affecting “All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914,” the choreography chops of director Ilyse Robbins are indisputably evident. Two lines of uniformed men,...