Stav Ziv is a journalist based in New York City whose work has also appeared in Dance Magazine, The Atlantic, and Newsday. She was previously a staff writer at Newsweek and the deputy editor at The Muse.
Stav Ziv
By Stav Ziv
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Art Can this noisemaker rattle the world out of its complacency?
Elana Mann's activist art is a mixture of politics and Purim
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Culture An Ashkenazi Jew, a New Orleans native living in Harlem — and the beginning of a beautiful collaboration
Alyson Richman and Shaunna J. Edwards have joined forces to create 'The Thread Collectors'
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Culture Facing the greatest challenge of his life, a beloved artist and teacher is taking a leap of faith
After suffering a stroke in 2021, Zvi Gotheiner can already envision his next moves
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News As in-person Seders return, some vulnerable Jews are being left behind
Jacob Speaks will never forget the Passover Seder where one of the attendees taped the afikoman to a mirror. His niece kept walking right past, but did not see it even as the adults exclaimed “hotter!” and “colder!” Years later, it remains a family joke: “You know, if you can’t find your keys but they’re…
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Culture How the war already changed the meaning of one artist’s childhood — and her painting
'When they started bombing Kyiv, there was no place left for fantasy,' painter Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi said
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Culture How Jewish women pioneered the fitness movement (for better and worse)
The women appear perfectly coiffed, makeup impeccable. They’re dressed in shorts, blouses, light sweaters and earrings to match. You might think they were headed off to a picnic in the park. But no, it’s 1958 and they’ve arrived at a calisthenics or “figure-shaping” class. Well, actually this is a fictionalized recreation of what women’s group…
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Culture She’s found a new way to keep Holocaust stories alive — one step at a time
There’s a moment in Elie Wiesel’s “Night” that seared itself into Rachel Linsky’s consciousness in the spring of 2020. Wiesel and his family have just arrived at Auschwitz. Twice, Wiesel and his father move to the left, first away from his mother and sisters and then toward an unknown fate: either the crematoria or the…
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Culture Six ways to celebrate the choreography in the new ‘West Side Story’
In many musicals, the dance is the icing on the cake — a sweet, sometimes saccharine flourish on top of an already constructed treat. But the “West Side Story” recipe is different. In the 1957 musical conceived, directed, and co-choreographed by Jerome Robbins, and the 1961 film adaptation, also choreographed and directed (in part) by…
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