Emma Seligman's feature debut, 'Shiva Baby,' centers on a young woman forced to juggle her ex-girlfriend, older lover and pushy parents at the same Jewish funeral. By Jon Frosch Senior Editor, Reviews ...

The ability to sit with our mourners when they most need our support should not be limited by physical proximity. PHILADELPHIA (JTA) — The pandemic and social distancing have ironically made physical ...

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Sarah Davis survived the Holocaust. Decades later, when she was 95, she succumbed to COVID-19. Six of us stood around her grave at measured distances from one another; her children and grandson spoke ...

Ahead of its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, Emma Seligman‘s debut feature “Shiva Baby” has sold worldwide rights to Utopia Media. “Shiva Baby” follows a young bisexual Jewish woman at a shiva ...

Polly Draper's refreshing take on a Jewish mother brightens Emma Seligman's debut feature, which mines a wild premise for dark laughs. Editor’s note: This review was originally published at the 2020 ...

Environmental activist Vandana Shiva delivered her talk “Soil not Oil: Biodiversity-Based Agriculture to Address the Climate Crisis” on Thursday at CEMEX auditorium. The lecture, presented by Students ...

Debi Cantor-Sternin and her two sisters grew up in Queens, New York. Their parents, Irwin and Gloria, were active in their local synagogue, and the family celebrated all the Jewish holidays. “That was ...

I got a big promotion this week, on primary election night. The losing Republican U.S. Senate candidate, Shiva Ayyadurai, had gone off on a long rant about his crushing defeat. To boil it down, the ...

The 2020 World Series of Poker Circuit Horseshoe Hammond $1,700 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event attracted a total of 989 entries, easily surpassing the $1,000,000 guarantee to create a final prize ...

It’s been almost exactly six months since the COVID-19 pandemic put a stop to everyone’s plans for the year—I know this for a fact, because I have a series of emails historians are welcome to dig ...

The public is invited to attend two events with legendary food activist Vandana Shiva, who will be at UC Santa Cruz on January 25 and 26. Shiva, a proponent of “poison-free” food and a leader of the ...