Is it good for the Jews?

Is It Good for the Jews?! with Jesse Bernstein, Dan Kitrosser and Dan Freedman

Join Dan Freedman, along with Artistic Director of Philadelphia’s Theatre Ariel Jesse Bernstein and award-winning playwright Dan Kitrosser, as they explore the positive and negative implications of what it means to be “good for the Jews” today. ...

Left on Tenth with Delia Ephron and Amy E. Schwartz

Delia Ephron, author of Left on Tenth is in conversation with Amy E. Schwartz. ...

Jewish Life in a Democracy: Lessons in Confronting Antisemitism with Hayley Finn, Lauren Strauss and Amy E. Schwartz

Join Theater J Artistic Director Hayley Finn and Jewish historian Lauren Strauss, Senior Professorial Lecturer at American University, for a discussion of the probing—and timely—questions raised about safety, assimilation and the status of Jewish life in a democracy. ...

Making Art in Times of Conflict with Alliance for Jewish Theatre

Panelist discuss the importance of theatre and creating beauty even when the world around you is filled with chaos and sadness. ...

How Theater Transforms the World with Mandy Patinkin, Kathryn Grody and Gail Merrifield Papp

Join Merrifield Papp, author of the memoir Public/Private: My Life with Joe Papp at The Public Theater, and longtime friends Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody for a conversation about “how The Public Theater became a transformative beacon for social change and of the couple who created it,” and the Yiddishkeit ...

How Jewish Theater Combats Antisemitism with David Chack, Hayley Finn, Aaron Henne and Jenny Rachel Weiner

A conversation about how Jewish theater can play a role in educating people about antisemitism. ...

Broadway Responds to Antisemitism with Tovah Feldshuh, Bruce Sussman, Alfred Uhry and Lynne Marie Rosenberg

Panelists from Broadway as they discuss the rise of antisemitism and Broadway’s response through recent and current productions. ...

Jan Karski: Witness to the Holocaust with David Strathairn, Derek Goldman and Amy E. Schwartz

Actor David Strathairn, nominated for an Academy Award for his role as journalist Edward R. Murrow in Good Night, and Good Luck, has dedicated himself to portraying great men. He’s currently performing as Jan Karski, the World War II hero who risked his life to carry his harrowing eye-witness report ...
Dr. Ruth Westheimer and Tovah Feldshuh

Becoming Dr. Ruth with Ruth K. Westheimer and Tovah Feldshuh

Ruth K. Westheimer has led a remarkable life. Long before she became a world-famous sex therapist, she escaped the Holocaust on the Kindertransport to Switzerland and was a teenage sharpshooter in the Haganah. As a young woman she studied and taught at the university in Paris before making her way ...
Oh I Remember the Black Birch playwright Velina Hasu Houston

Oh, I Remember the Black Birch: Play Reading and Talkback with Velina Hasu Houston & Keren M. Goldberg

This program is part of the 2021 Moment Theater Festival. In the Autumn of 1941, 18-year-old Brina Berman, a Jewish Polish young woman from Warsaw, finds herself alone in Kobe, Japan, having traveled halfway across the world following the Nazi invasion of her hometown and murder of her family. Thus ...

Hitler’s Tasters: Play Reading and Talkback with Michelle Kholos Brooks and Gavriel D. Rosenfeld

The cast, director, and playwright of Hitler’s Tasters share excerpts from their award-winning play, a dark comedy about a group of young women who have the opportunity to die for their country every day as Adolf Hitler’s food tasters. Playwright Michelle Kholos Brooks is also in conversation with Holocaust historian ...

Theodore Bikel’s The City of Light with Aimee Ginsburg Bikel

Love, Laughter and Tears: Theodore Bikel’s The City of Light with Aimee Ginsburg Bikel. This zoominar is part of the Martha’s Vineyard Jewish Book Festival, in partnership with Moment Magazine, the Chilmark Library and the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center. ...