The after party for the world premiere of Bad Shabbos combined cocktail lounge glitz with noshes galore.
Musician Hadar Orshalimy’s upcoming album features songs from the Great American Songbook. Jewish women wrote all covered arrangements. Orshalimy’s ninth album ‘Witchcraft’ featured jazz music and celebrates feminism. On March 8, the album will appear on digital music platforms.
2023 was an interesting year for the festival.
I love documentaries about how food can bring people together or tie us to history or culture.
As my first festival of 2022, I had the opportunity to screen films from the New York Jewish Film Festival, supported by Film at Lincoln Center and The Jewish Museum.
As we approach Pesach, the holiday where Jews like myself celebrate liberation from slavery in Egypt and reflect on our history, the question of Jewish identity reaps through my mind.