Stephanie Butnick

Oct 24, 2024 | arcmag.org | Stephanie Butnick

A few minutes into A Real Pain, Jesse Eisenberg’s latest film, cousins David and Benji Kaplan are checking into their hotel in Poland for a Holocaust history tour, whereupon Benji retrieves a small parcel he shipped there in advance—some weed.

Sep 25, 2024 | arcmag.org | Stephanie Butnick

You’re pretty smooth for a rabbi. These words, spoken by Kristen Bell’s Joanne as she lingers by her car after a dinner party where she’s met Adam Brody’s Noah, are thrilling. “You’re not, by chance, wrestling with your faith, are you? Considering throwing it all away?

Dec 9, 2023 | nypost.com | Stephanie Butnick |Tanya Singer

There’s a photograph that circulates around Jewish pockets of the internet each year during Hanukkah. It was taken in Germany in 1930, and it shows an elegant menorah sitting in a windowsill, and a massive Nazi flag hanging on a building just outside. The message is immediately clear: Even during the darkest of days, Jews don’t forget who we are. Its devotion and defiance, a visceral reminder of the themes of Hanukkah.

Nov 8, 2023 | tabletmag.com | Stephanie Butnick

You know that feeling when you walk into a room and it’s clear everyone was just talking about you?

Nov 6, 2023 | tabletmag.com | Tony Badran |Stephanie Butnick |Liel Leibovitz |Park MacDougald |Sheila Nazarian |Alana Newhouse | +7 more

Kathryn Wolf: Use Your RageIzabella Tabarovsky: Let Russian Jews LeadLiel Leibovitz: Get a GunMy whole life, I hated public speaking so much that I would feel queasy introducing myself to a dinner party.