Click Here to Read: Nina Simone: A biographer’s fantasy By Jordan Alexander Stein in The American Psychoanalyst Substack Newsletter on February 27. 2025.
Nina Simone in 1965. Image: Kroon, Ron for Anefo. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: Famed Jewish expressionist Ben-Zion Weinman will be spotlighted in a NYC exhibition for the first time in 25 years “Ben-Zion: Hineni – I Am Here” will be on view at Brooklyn’s Maor Art Gallery for five weeks, beginning Saturday, Feb. 1By Jackie Hajdenberg on the Jewish Telegraphic Agency website on January 28, 2025.
Artist Ben-Zion Weinman (1915) in the Russian Empire. Author Unknown. Public Domain.
Click Here to Read: A new ‘Merchant of Venice’ production challenges anti-Jewish tropes by doubling down on them. A “contemporary, spirited” version of Shakespeare’s play opens off-Broadway at Classic Stage Company By Joseph Strauss November 20, 2024.
Shakespeare’s comedy of the Merchant of Venice. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons