How ‘The Golem’ Inspired ‘Frankenstein’
(Alma, Oct. 2021)

New documentary series on Jewish role models spotlights 2 Chicagoans. ‘There’s so many great and interesting people to feature in Chicago,’ director  says (Chicago Tribune, Oct. 2021)

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SATURDAY NIGHT SEDER

• How Pandemic-Produced ‘Saturday Night Seder’ Became An Emmy Contender (Huffington Post, July 2020)
• Compiled just for you: The Emmy-eligible original songs playlist for 2020 (The Los Angeles Times, July 2020)
• ‘Saturday Night Seder’ Hopes to Break into the Emmy Race Against Well-Funded TV Specials (Variety, June 2020)
• Saturday Night Seder showed the power of accessible Jewish art. Does it really take a plague to make it happen? (Jewish Telegraphic Agency, May 2020)
• Watch the Full Saturday Night Seder Starring Billy Porter, Cynthia Erivo, Shoshana Bean, Idina Menzel, and More (Playbill, May 2020)
• What Can You Do for People in Crisis? Put on a Seder Show (The New York Times, April 2020)
• There’s No Seder Like a Showbiz Seder (The New York Times, April 2018)

REBOOT

• Black and Jewish Identities Converge in Art  (Hadassah Magazine, Sept. 2021)
• Reboot launches new website in honor of 20th anniversary (J. The Jewish News of Northern California, July 2021)
• Reboot shifts emphasis to developing more ideas, faster, (eJewish Philanthropy, 2021)
• COVID-Keepers: Jewish Education Leaders on the Possibilities Emerging from the Pandemic (eJewish Philanthropy, November 2020)
• Beth Salamensky, Lawyer Who Found an L.G.B.T.Q. Community, Dies at 43 (The New York Times, August 2020)
• New Initiative CANVAS Offers Funding to Jewish Artists (The Jewish Journal, June 2020)
• Amid Pandemic Challenges, Jewish Creatives Get Boost from CANVAS, a New Arts & Culture Collaborative (Jewish Funders Network, May 2020)
• Reboot Ideas Festival Open To All (Jim Joseph Foundation, January 2020)
• JUF awards over $1 million to spur smart growth, innovation (Jewish United Fund, June 2019)
• ‘Rebooting’ Jewish life in Chicago (Jewish United Fund, August 2018)
• There’s No Seder Like a Showbiz Seder (The New York Times, April 2018)

SILVER SCREEN STUDIOS

• New documentary series on Jewish role models spotlights 2 Chicagoans. ‘There’s so many great and interesting people to feature in Chicago,’ director says (Chicago Tribune, Oct. 2021)
• Could It Really Be That Simple?  (L’Chaim MagazineSkokie Patch, Oct. 2021)
• ‘Revolutionary’ Skokie Rabbi Of Deaf Congregation Inspires Series (Patch, Sept. 2021) 
• Skokie rabbi featured in new documentary short (WBBM News Radio, Oct. 2021)
• Impact: Senior Moments (Nob Hill Gazette, July 2021)
• Artistic Sukkot-Inspired Exhibition: ‘Ushpizin of the Silver Screen’ (Jewish Journal, October 2020)   
• Reimagining Sukkahs in a Time of Plague (The Forward, October 2020)
• Art That Will Inspire You for Sukkot (eJewish Philanthropy, October 2020)
• Local producer’s new web series includes Carl Reiner’s final interview (JWeekly, August 2020)
• In Carl Reiner’s Final Interview, He Talked About His Career, Meeting Mel Brooks and God (Variety, June 2020)
• Here’s What Carl Reiner Had to Say About Life, Family, and Comedy in His Last Interview During Quarantine (Time Magazine, June 2020)
• In his final interview, Carl Reiner revealed what mattered most to him (Los Angeles Times, June 2020)
• As Seniors Isolate, Documentary Series Shares Their Wit and Wisdom (Jewish Journal, May 2020)
• Ellen Burstyn Shares Her Life Story From Quarantine (AARP, May 2020)
• How to Interview Family while Social Distancing (Family Tree Magazine, April 2020)
• In ‘Last Act’ web series, our elders dish out all manner of life advice (JWeekly, May 2018)
• At 95, Norman Lear shares secrets of how to live an applause-worthy ‘Last Act’ (The Times of Israel, May 2018)

GOLEM

• How ‘The Golem’ Inspired ‘Frankenstein’
  (Alma, Oct. 2021)
• ‘The Golem,’ century-old horror classic, reanimated for Halloween (JWeekly, Oct. 2021)
• Silent Horror Film ‘The Golem’ is Brought Back to Life as a Reimagined Episodic Series (Detroit Jewish News, Oct. 2021)
  
• My Precious! The Golem, rescored… (Nu Detroit, Oct. 2021)
• A sprawling Reboot project creates new music for a classic horror film – (eJewish Philanthropy, Oct. 2021)
• Watch “The Golem” (1920) rescored by members of the Flaming Lips, Los Lobos, Threshing Floor, plus commentary by occult, Jewish, and tech big thinkers (Boing Boing, Oct. 2021)
• Reboot – The Golem Rescored (Record Crates United, Oct. 2021)
• Watch // The Golem Rescored : Episode 1 (I Heart Noise, Oct. 2021)

DAWN

• Shavuot All-Nighter: Twelve Hour Online International Celebration to Include Efforts of Local Artists (The Detroit Jewish News, May 2021)
• Joey Soloway, Adrian Salpeter, Jessie Kahnweiler, And Many More Celebrate DAWN 2021 (Scenester TV, May 2021)
• All-Night Shavuot Arts Festival Features Local and National Talent (J Weekly, May 2021)
• The Cosmic Reunion at Dawn (CANVAS, May 2021)
• Stay Up During Shavuot By Attending the Overnight DAWN Festival (Jewish Journal, May 2020)
• Flaming Lips, Los Lobos Members to Premiere New Score for Cecil B. Demille’s ‘The Ten Commandments’ (Rolling Stone, May 2020)
• DAWN 2010 Celebrates Shavuot (Tablet Magazine, May 2010)

WHAT WOULD YOU BRING?

• What Would You Like to Bring? (Jewish News (UK), June 2021)
• Pic of the Day (eJewish Philanthropy, June 2021)
• What Would You Bring? (Refugee Week UK, June 2021)
• What Would You Bring? (Asylum Arts, June 2021)

JOY OF QUARANTINE

• Watch This Comedian Try to Cook Jewish Food (And Fail) (The Nosher, August 2020)
• Comic Jena Friedman Serves up Food and Humor in ‘The Joy of Quarantine’ (The Jewish Journal, July 2020)

REBOOT IDEAS

• Reboot Launches Quarantine Podcasts With a Jewish Slant (The Jewish Journal, April 2020)

DEATH OVER DINNER – JEWISH EDITION

• Let’s Talk About Death (Tablet Magazine, August 2018)
• Introducing Death Over Dinner – Jewish Edition (eJewish Philanthropy, October 2018)

10Q

• Reboot! Check out 10Q to stay reflective this holiday (The Jewish News, September 2018)
• Happy New Questions (Jewish Journal, September 2018)
• The Questions That Define Us (Jewish Journal, September 2018)
• Prayer that isn’t prayer: 6 alternate on-ramps for the synagogue-centered High Holy Days (Grok Nation, September 2018)
• Social Network for One: Website Offers Visitors Chance to Reflect (The Wall Street Journal, September 2011)
• 10Q Project: Answer life’s big questions online … Then reread next year (Jewish Journal, September 2011)
• Atonement and Reflection in a Digital Era (New York Times, September 2009)
• Ten Significant Questions for the Days of Awe (New York Times’ City Room Blog, September 2009)
• What’s more Jewish than asking questions? (USA Today, September 2009)

THE NATIONAL DAY OF UNPLUGGING

• Richard Branson: It’s time to unplug: (Virgin, March 2018)
• Reboot Readies for National Day of Unplugging (Jim Joseph Foundation, March 2018)
• National Day of Unplugging Wants You to Power Down for 24 Hours (Mashable, March 2012)
• Group Offers Sleeping Bags For Smartphones (Wall Street Journal, March 2011)
• Katie Couric’s Notebook: Unplug (CBS News, March 2010)
• And on the Sabbath, the iPhones Shall Rest (New York Times, March 2010)

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF IN YIDDISH CELEBRATES WORLD REFUGEE DAY

• Hear Powerful Stories From the Refugees Who Attended Off-Broadway’s Fiddler on the Roof (Playbill, June 2019)
• Yiddish FIDDLER ON THE ROOF Welcomes Refugees from Around the World (Broadway World, June 2019)
• In the ‘Fiddler’ Crowd, Far From the Home They Love (The New York Times, July 2019)

SIX WORD MEMOIRS ON JEWISH LIFE

• Six Words to Fame? Try it! (Jewish News of Northern California, June 2012)

SUKKAH CITY

• A Harvest of Temporary Shelters (The New York Times, September 2010)
• Holiday Tradition Meets Modern Design (The Wall Street Journal, June 2010):
• Sukkah vs. Sukkah (New York Magazine, September 2010)
• New York Architecture: The Events of the Year (The New Yorker, December 2010):
• Union Square’s High Concept Sukkahs (The Forward, September 2010)
• Redesigning Sukkot in New York City (BoingBoing, September 2010)

REBAR

• Bar mitzvah-themed storytelling events seek to prompt reflection on the ritual (Jewish Telegraphic Agency, June 2015)
• Storytellers make another stop at the bar mitzvah (Jewish News of Northern California, January 2015)

THE IDELSOHN SOCIETY

• Reviving ‘Songs For The Jewish-American Jet Set’ (NPR’s Fresh Air, December 2011)
• San Francisco Chronicle: Jewish Record Store Popping Up for a Month in S.F. (San Francisco Chronicle, November 2011)
• Johnny Mathis to Discuss His Links to Jewish Music (San Francisco Chronicle, February 2011)
• The Secret Musical History Of…’Black Sabbath’? (NPR, September 2010)

BEYOND BUBBIE

• Going ‘Beyond Bubbie’ with flavors of the ‘Old East’ (The Jewish News of Northern California, March 2017)
• Bubbies Crossing Cultural Borders (The Wall Street Journal, January 2013)
• Comedy Listings for Jan. 11-17 (The New York Times, January 2013)
• Rebooting Bubbie (The Jewish Journal, November 2012)
• Wise Sons Deli’s Leo Beckerman talks food, holidays and bubbies (The Mercury News, November 2012)
• 60-cent Tops burger, Wonderland school garden, bubbie talk (The Los Angeles Times, October 2012)
• “Beyond Bubbie” Recipe Sharing in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco (NBC Los Angeles, October 2012)