ARTS AND CULTURE

Pink (Alecia Beth Moore)

Singer

It’s been a big year for pop star Pink: she unveiled her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, played to a rapturous crowd at the BRIT Awards and released her eighth album Hurts 2B Human. It’s also been a year where she’s been increasingly open and proud of her Jewish identity. When she was criticized in April for posting a photo showing her two young children running around playfully at Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial, she retorted, “These two children are in actuality Jewish, as am I and the entirety of my mother’s family. The very person who constructed this believed in children being children, and to me this is a celebration of life after death. Please keep your hatred and judgment to yourselves.” (Photo: Allison / CC BY-SA 2.0)