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Black History Month – An Epilogue

Marking the closing of Black History Month, LABA alumnus Kendell Pinkney condemns the habitual pigeonholing of him as Jew of..

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Ancient Texts Essay Featured Fellows War & Peace

Unscrolling Purim

Israeli-American playwright Zohar Tirosh-Polk is a current LABA fellow. For this year’s Purim celebration, she reminds us how the heroine of..

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Text and Art and LABAlive

Counting the days until the first 2018 LABAlive on March 22nd, Ruby Namdar, celebrated author of the The Ruined House..

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Alumni Essay Featured War & Peace

Are We Done With Murder?

LABA alum Gordon Haber considers Black History Month and the dangers of making America great again In these days..

14 Feb
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Alumni Dance Featured OTHER Second Stage

Cultural Appropriation and the Yemenite Step

LABA Second Stage Presents Hadar Ahuvia’s “Everything you have is yours?” LABA Second Stage provides LABA alumni the opportunity to..

31 Jan
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Toppling Walls

Writer and story consultant Amy Handelsman is a current LABA fellow. Here are Amy’s thoughts on some timely ancient texts we’ve..

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ABOUT

LABA: A Laboratory for Jewish Culture is a program of the 14th Street Y that uses classic Jewish texts to inspire the creation of art, dialogue and study.

CALENDAR

Join us for LABAlive, our series of live events which feature cutting edge artwork and performances combined with provocative teachings.

FELLOWS

Every year LABA selects a group of culture-makers to take part in our house of study. Learn more about this year’s fellows and our yearly theme WAR + PEACE.