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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... At a Passover in the near future, you might think twice about leaving the door open for Elijah.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Hello, loverboy! “Dirty Dancing: The Musical” is heading to Broadway! The musical will open at the Lena Horne Theater on Feb. 12, 2027 and run until Sept. 5, 2027. Based upon the 1987 movie of the same name, the musical will follow the unlikely romance between Frances “Baby” Houseman and dance instructor Johnny Castle at the very Jewish Kellerman’s Resort in the Borscht Belt during the summer of 1963.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... There’s been no shortage of journalists, celebrities and filmmakers who have been eager to shed light on the horrors of the October 7th attacks on Israel. If you feel moved to commemorate the third anniversary of that awful day by watching a film, documentary or scripted show, we’ve compiled ten moving options.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Since the October 7 attacks three years ago, we’ve turned to our Jewish community more often than we can name. So when it came time to commemorate that horrific day, it only made sense to turn, once again, to this community to make sense of our grief and our hopes for the future. We asked Kveller readers to contribute their feelings for a collective prayer on the third anniversary of October 7. This is the result.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... This article is part of Kveller’s Jewish Artists Spotlight, featuring Jewish artists who work in a variety of media in New York, Israel and elsewhere. The project combines a series of profiles with live, online events that explore the experiences of being a working Jewish artist today, brought to you with the support of UJA-Federation of New York.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Are you ok?? Are you OK?? MOM! MOM! MOM! These are the texts from my children on March 12, 2026; one in high school, one in middle school. My high schooler had her phone, my middle schooler did not. News of something wrong in the area trickled in. All schools were put on lock down but no one knew why. Then, news of a problem at a religious institution arrived. A religious institution in West Bloomfield, where we live, and I work.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Today, opening up a word processor on your computer is such a no-brainer that it’s hard to imagine a time when editing a sentence meant typing the whole thing again. But did you know that the person who invented the first computerized word processor was a Jewish woman from the Bronx? Her name was Evelyn Berezin, and she was one of the great pioneers of the computer age who spent most of her career as the first — or only — woman in the room.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... With the arrival of fall comes plenty of built-in activities. There’s apple-picking, raking crunchy leaves into piles to jump on, hay rides and Halloween festivities galore. And once one heads home, sun setting earlier and earlier, another beloved pastime takes hold: cozy TV watching season. But what makes a TV show cozy? Everyone’s definition seems to be slightly different.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... We’re winding down the High Holidays, it’s cool enough outside to wear a sweater and the grocery store shelves are stocked with pumpkin spice everything.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Editor’s note: We first published this piece in 2023. We are republishing it in 2026 with updated information about Dara Collins and Donna Miller-Small’s new online Intro to Canasta class. What do you know about canasta?