Lisa Traiger

Mar 6, 2025 | jewishtimes.com | Lisa Traiger

When Jewish college students from six campuses throughout the Northeast United States came together this past weekend on University of Maryland’s College Park campus, they filled their day and evening with song. The gathering of nearly 70 students from Tufts, Harvard, Brandeis, Yale and Maryland universities, along with professional singers from Queens College in New York, was part of a new initiative from Hillel International, which serves Jewish students on 850 campuses around the world.

Mar 5, 2025 | hillel.org | Lisa Traiger

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in the Washington Jewish Week on March 5, 2025, under the title “Jewish Joy in the House: Northeast Hillels A Cappella Competition Gives Students a — Musical — Voice.”When Jewish college students from six campuses throughout the Northeast United States came together this past weekend on University of Maryland’s College Park campus, they filled their day and evening with song.

Mar 4, 2025 | montgomerymag.com | Lisa Traiger

When Perisphere Theater puts on a show, it looks back to the past as a way to wrestle with the present and consider the future. The Montgomery County-based company was founded by director Heather Benjamin in 2015 in Washington, D.C., and now performs in Bethesda. Benjamin’s goal: Produce “plays that examine personal and collective history and the notion of history itself.

Mar 4, 2025 | washingtonjewishweek.com | Lisa Traiger

When Jewish college students from six campuses throughout the Northeast United States came together this past weekend on University of Maryland’s College Park campus, they filled their day and evening with song. The gathering of nearly 70 students from Tufts, Harvard, Brandeis, Yale and Maryland universities, along with professional singers from Queens College in New York, was part of a new initiative from Hillel International, which serves Jewish students on 850 campuses around the world.

Feb 27, 2025 | dancemagazine.com | Lisa Traiger

A sharp wind was blowing in Washington, DC, on the morning of Monday, February 17, as 36 dancers processed single file around the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Threading in front of the modernist white marble edifice, then across a plaza with views of the Potomac River, they danced the spare but meaningful gestures of the late choreographer Pina Bausch’s “The Nelken Line,” from her 1982 work Nelken (“carnations”).