Diaspora


From ‘Hairspray’ to ‘South Park,’ composer Marc Shaiman tells a story shaped by Jewish humor

Shaiman writes about the bitter and the sweet of a long, successful career with setbacks that still sting.

Bill Aron, photographer of Jewish countercultures, gets his due in a sweeping retrospective

Bill Aron, whose early projects included a series on Jews living on New York's Lower East Side, discusses a new exhibit of his work at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan, Feb. 4, 2026.

Proportion of Poles who dislike Jews rises to 40%, lowest pro-Jewish sentiment since 2006

A WOMAN holds an Israeli flag and another person covers her from the rain during the March of the Living at Auschwitz-Birkenau in April. Born into the post-Auschwitz covenant, we considered Jew-hatred passé, doomed, like racism; alas, today, it’s surging, the writer laments.