Jen Richler

Jen Richler Headshot

Jen Richler is JWA's content editor and podcast co-producer. Her writing has appeared in JTA, Tablet, and Kveller, among others. She's interested in too many topics to list, but especially Israeli and Jewish culture, educational equity, and parenting. She lives in Bloomington, Indiana with her family. 

Blog Posts

Weber Siblings 1946 - UnBroken still

Q & A with Beth Lane, Director of "UnBroken"

Jen Richler

JWA talks to Beth Lane, director of the documentary UnBroken, which traces the extraordinary journey of seven siblings, including her own mother, who escaped Nazi Germany as children.

Topics: Holocaust, Film
"An Unfinished Symphony," art piece by Judy Robkin

The Power of Visual Storytelling

Jen Richler

JWA chats with Barbara Rosenblit and Sheila Miller, the creators of Artful Disclosure, a program that honors the ordinary and extraordinary lives of Jewish women through visual storytelling. 

Girls who were part of first transport of Jews to Auschwitz

Q & A with Heather Dune Macadam, Director of "999: The Forgotten Girls"

Jen Richler

JWA talks with Heather Dune Macadam, director of 999: The Forgotten Girls, a new documentary that tells the story of the young women who made up the first transport of Jews to Auschwitz.

"What We Bring" by Andi Arnovitz

Q & A with Artist Andi Arnovitz about her new piece, "What We Bring"

Jen Richler

JWA talks to Israeli artist Andi Arnovitz about her new (JWA-inspired!) piece, What We Bring, currently on display at the Jerusalem Biennale. 

 

 

Photo of a teenager girl talking to her mother and a rabbi in the rabbi's office

Q & A with Filmmaker Allison Norlian about her new film "Thirteen"

Jen Richler

JWA chats with filmmaker Allison Norlian about her new short film Thirteen, which tells the story of a mother fighting for her disabled daughter's right to have a bat mitzvah. 

Marra Gad cropped headshot

7 Questions For Marra Gad

Jen Richler

JWA talks to author, speaker, and writer/producer Marra Gad. 

Film Poster of two teenage girls with faces close together

Q & A with Sarah Meital Benjamin about Her New Film, 'Arava'

Jen Richler

JWA chats with Sarah Meital Benjamin about her new short film Arava, which tells the story of two teenage best friends traveling through small-town Israel in search of redemption.

Topics: Film, Israel
Borscht Belt Historical Marker - placard with info about Monticello

Bringing the Borscht Belt Back to Life

Jen Richler

JWA talks to Marisa Scheinfeld, founder and director of the Borscht Belt Historical Marker Project. 

Jill Freedman in Jewish Cemetery

Q & A with Susan Chevlowe, curator of "Missing Generations: Photographs by Jill Freedman"

Jen Richler

JWA talks to Susan Chevlowe, curator of a new exhibition of photographs by Jill Freedman that documents the destruction and resurgence of Jewish life after the Holocaust.

April Baskin

7 Questions For April Baskin

Jen Richler

JWA speaks with April Baskin, an organizer and founding director of Joyous Justice.

Topics: Civil Rights

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Jen Richler." (Viewed on September 11, 2025) <https://qa.jwa.org/blog/author/richler-jen>.