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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 371

Andrew Esensten

Rabbi Michael Lerner speaks in 2019. (Video screenshot)
August 31, 2024, 5:55 am
Michael Lerner, influential rabbi-activist and founder of Tikkun magazine, dies at 81
Publication promoted two-state solution and liberal agenda, was ‘always deliberately to the left of American Jewish liberalism’
By Andrew Silow-Carroll and Andrew Esensten
Jenni Asher is studying at the Academy for Jewish Religion California to become a cantor. (Arjun Ramesh via JTA)
April 12, 2024, 1:53 am
Jenni Asher is set to become first ordained Black woman cantor in the US
The accomplished violinist and cantorial soloist will be one of America’s two Black cantors upon her graduation
By Andrew Esensten and Shoshana McKinney Kirya-Ziraba
The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. (Andrew Esensten)
April 10, 2024, 4:35 pm
7 anti-Zionist Jewish artists pull out of California Jewish museum’s exhibit
When the California Jewish Open exhibit opens at San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum in June, the gallery walls will have blank spaces where the art was supposed to hang
By Andrew Esensten
Lilaq Logan, an IDF commander with Jewish and Hebrew Israelite heritage, has been posting videos about the war on Instagram, where she has more than 25,000 followers. (Courtesy via JTA)
December 22, 2023, 10:57 am
Israelis of color push back against race-based, anti-Israel narratives spread abroad
With backgrounds as varied as their online personas, a growing number of Israeli social media influencers work to dispel lies disseminated by pro-Palestinian activists since Oct. 7
By Andrew Esensten
This portrait of Benjamin Melendez was included in the 2010 exhibition 'Only in New York.' (Julian Voloj/JTA)
September 8, 2023, 4:22 am
How a Puerto Rican-Jewish gang leader helped create hip-hop in the Bronx
New 5-part podcast ‘Can You Dig It’ explores the story of ‘Yellow Benjy’ Melendez, who brokered peace and whose influence allowed an emerging musical genre to take root and grow
By Andrew Esensten
Rick Rubin, left, with Russell Simmons in 1997. (Jim Steinfeldt/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images/ via JTA)
August 11, 2023, 9:56 pm
From Rick Rubin to Doja Cat, Jews have helped shape the first 50 years of hip-hop
As the genre that influenced music the world over celebrates its 50th birthday, a look at Jewish contributions on stage and behind the scenes
By Andrew Esensten
Rabbi Mendy Cohen is dwarfed by 7-foot-1 Kings center Domantas Sabonis, who attended Chabad of Sacramento's Purim party on March 7. (Courtesy of Chabad of Sacramento via JTA)
April 14, 2023, 9:47 pm
NBA star Domantas Sabonis’s wife says he is converting to Judaism
Breaking the news in an interview this week, Shashana Sabonis says the all-star Sacramento Kings center is learning, keeping kosher and attended a Chabad Purim party this year
By Andrew Esensten
Mikey Pauker, seen here performing in Berkeley, California, is one of the musicians behind a petition to add a Jewish music category to the Grammys. (Courtesy Pauker/ J the Jewish News via JTA)
February 27, 2023, 2:17 am
There’s a Grammy for Christian music. These musicians want one for Jewish music, too
Friends Joanie Leeds and Mikey Pauker say US Jewish music is experiencing a renaissance — and as it falls between categories like global and religious, now’s the time to add it
By Andrew Esensten
Members of Israel United in Christ see themselves as being part of God's army. (Screenshot from YouTube/IUICEvents)
November 26, 2022, 6:32 am
How many Hebrew Israelites are there, and how worried should Jews be?
Recent militant posturing of Israel United in Christ, followers of Hebrew Israelite spiritual movement, has alarmed many already on edge from recent attacks, rise in antisemitism
By Andrew Esensten
'No one is listening to us,' by Berkeley multidisciplinary artist Tosha Stimage. (Impart Photography/ Courtesy of the Contemporary Jewish Museum/ via JTA)
November 16, 2022, 2:45 am
At a Jewish museum, a non-Jewish artist’s use of the Palestinian flag sparks debate
After seeing Tosha Stimage’s piece in the ‘Tikkun’ exhibit, visitors to the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco are asking questions, including whether it belongs there
By Andrew Esensten
File: Kanye West watches an NBA basketball game in Los Angeles, January 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
October 29, 2022, 5:22 am
Enjoying music ‘by somebody that hates you?’: Jewish fans press pause on Ye’s songs
Longtime admirers of antisemitic rapper, including other hip hop artists, say they can no longer listen to his groundbreaking catalog of work due to his bigotry
By Andrew Esensten
Members of the Black Hebrew Israelites demonstrate outside the US Capitol in Washington, November 13, 2018. (Win McNamee/Getty Images via JTA)
October 12, 2022, 10:36 pm
‘Black people are actually Jew[s]’: The origins of Kanye West’s inflammatory remarks
Rapper’s comment draws on Black Hebrew Israelite teaching that African-Americans are the true children of Israel, a claim that some say is antisemitic and others ahistorical
By Andrew Esensten
Lesbian author, poet and playwright Elana Dykewomon, photographed at her home in Oakland, Calif., on May 1, 2022, died Aug. 7, 2022. (Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images via JTA)
August 12, 2022, 6:10 pm
Elana Dykewomon, influential Jewish lesbian author and playwright, dies at 72
Award-winning writer, whose characters were Jewish lesbians like her, passes away minutes before her first play, inspired by 2016 death of her wife, was to be performed
By Andrew Esensten and PHILISSA CRAMER
Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) reacts to the fans in the second half of Game 4 of an NBA basketball first-round playoff series against the Dallas Mavericks, April 23, 2022, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/ Rick Bowmer)
April 27, 2022, 1:13 am
Why do the Utah Jazz, in the Mormon capital, play ‘Hava Nagila’ after wins?
Use of centuries-old Jewish folk tune to celebrate NBA victories draws confusion, support and accusations of cultural appropriation from spectators
By Andrew Esensten
The Silversteins, from left: Joshua, Ami, Laila, Shel and Cinthya, outside of their Los Angeles home. (Casey Durkin/NBC/ via JTA)
November 18, 2021, 10:47 pm
Meet the multiracial Jewish family who swapped lives on NBC’s ‘Home Sweet Home’
In director Ava DuVernay’s first episode involving Jews, the Silversteins and the Baltzers, a Mormon family, walk in each others’ shoes for a week — with heartwarming results
By Andrew Esensten
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