Nearly a decade later, Ash’s film “Bookends,” which is loosely inspired by his own experience, is the first movie incubated ...

Writer Howard Melvin Fast was born on November 11, 1914, in New York City to a Jewish family; his father, Barney Fastowski, came from the Russian Empire, from the town of Fastov, near Kiev, and his ...

Joshua Henkin is the author of “The World Without You,” “Matrimony,” and “Swimming Across the Hudson.” His blog posts are featured on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish ...

Authors Chloe Sherman and Shoshana von Blanckensee reflect on the tumult and freedom of being queer and Jewish together in 1990s San Francisco.

When Ben and Max Berkowitz noticed a troubling trend in comic book movies, they decided they had to do something about it. “Characters who identified as Jewish on the page, as soon as they made the ...

Akos Kertesz, an award-winning Hungarian Jewish writer, was granted political asylum in Canada. Kertesz, 80, who fled last year to Canada from Hungary, was given refugee status even though Ottawa in a ...

When Mike Reiss isn’t winning awards for The Simpsons, chances are he’s traveling with his wife. We’re not talking any of the Disney theme parks (his choice), we’re talking less traveled, more remote, ...

NEW YORK — Last year, a list circulated online targeting “Zionist” authors for a boycott. Dozens of blacklisted writers, nearly all Jews, had been condemned for infractions as slight as expressing ...

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