Arts & Culture

As the home of Berklee College of Music, the Boston and New England Conservatories, and such legendary venues as Scullers, Club Passim, and Shalin Liu Performance Center, the Greater Boston area has long been a...

BOSTON – Since 2015, the Jewish Arts Collaborative has brought the Greater Boston community together to celebrate Hanukkah at the Museum of Fine Arts. Despite COVID constraints, JArts, the MFA, and the JCC Association of...

Dating. Marriage. Intermarriage. These are some of the realities of modern life and many stories have been told about them. In “The Last Five Years,” which is playing at the Lyric Stage Company of Boston...

Thanksgiving is on its way, a day that means different things to different people. One of my favorite things to do as a kid was to sing songs appropriate to the holiday that we learned...

Whether it is carrying astronauts or famous Jewish actors, when a rocket launches into space (or almost), many people pray for the wellbeing of whomever is in the capsule. While in space, many speak to...

Jeffrey Kucharsky won’t have to study his Torah portion when his bar mitzvah reception takes place next month at Temple Emanu-El in Marblehead. That’s because the 13-year-old already has done the hard part. Because of...

When Igor Golyak, founder and artistic director of Needham’s Arlekin Players Theatre, was researching “The Merchant of Venice,” he was smacked in the face by the discovery that Jews have been on the move throughout...

Though the Jewish High Holidays are behind us, Hanukkah beckons and many people are trying to maintain their resolutions to eat better while also looking for good ideas for holiday treats for themselves and those...

As a young college graduate in the early 1900s, Ella Davis traveled through Europe and around the Mediterranean with her father, a prominent member of Cincinnati’s Jewish community. She kept a diary about her journeys,...

BOSTON – Is "The Merchant of Venice" a ‘problem play?’ Igor Golyak believes it is—but not in the way that many scholars and buffs see it. "The line ‘Hath not a Jew eyes?’ was not...