Today’s antisemites wish to save Jews from the darkness of their Jewish natures
On the 400th anniversary of the playwright’s death, drawing back into the light the talented woman who may have inspired some sonnets and The Merchant of Venice
‘History is not always a stroll down memory lane’
The Supreme Court Justice will play the role of the judge in a mock trial of Jewish moneylender Shylock in Italy
A new book of cocktail recipes (and more) offers an inspiring way to toast Jacob Adler, the star of Yiddish theater
Shakespeare’s prickly classic gets a timely update in new production
They lie. They cheat. The treat their kids terribly. This Father’s Day, be thankful your own dad is such a mensch.
The ADL director says our interview with Shakespeare expert missed the point
Talking about ‘Merchant of Venice’ and the ADL with Barry Edelstein
In the Peace Corps, I hid my Jewish identity. But that didn’t prevent me from experiencing anti-Semitism.
Stephen Marche on hypocritical criticism of an Israeli theater group
A pound of flesh, a lion with a thorn in his paw, an all-powerful book—a new collection of Jewish folktales from Arab lands sheds light on the universality of the genre
Trying to make sense of Shakespeare’s politics, a complicated web of ideas and contradictions that attracted and repelled some of modern history’s most notorious leaders
Suicide note may indicate pilot’s anti-Semitism
Four rarely-seen plays echo
F. Murray Abraham tackles theater’s most vexing villains
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