Cannes and Cannes-not: Jews abound, but no Israeli films at the festival
Time to pack up, head home and not think about how many flaky, butter-drenched croissants I stuffed in my maw during my 12-day stay in the south of France.
This was my fourth visit to...
Film Review: ‘Fog in August’ Appearing at The Washington Jewish Film Festival
The horrors of the Holocaust have been portrayed many times in film, most notably Schindler’s List and The Pianist. One such horror, however, has never been a focus of film study: the euthanasia program...
Hamburger culture – music in Hamburg
Riding to the top of Europe’s longest curved escalator takes well over four minutes. People around me make use of that time to snap selfies as we rise towards the public plaza within Hamburg’s...
Magdala Stone, known as Jewish-Christian ‘crossroads,’ gets its public debut
Described as one of the most significant archaeological finds in modern Israel, the Magdala Stone, unearthed in 2009 near the shores of the Sea of Galilee, has been unveiled to the public for first...
A Life In Music
Friends and family intertwine within the music career of clarinetist Franklin Cohen. A local audience will get to experience the friendship during the final concert of the 2016-2017 season of the Chamber Music Society...
History of Cork’s Jewish community to be commemorated
The Jews of Cork may have lost their synagogue last year but the story of how Leeside became home to a small, thriving Jewish community in the early half of the 20th century is...
Yosl (Jose) Kozer, from a Yiddish home come the voice of Cuba
I got lost driving through New Hampshire's winding roads going to interview José Kozer, the prize-winning Cuban-born poet who recently visited Dartmouth College as part of the prestigious Montgomery Fellows Residency Program. When I...
National Museum of American Jewish History show about 1917 has violence, revolution, refugees
The United States enters a war overseas, and people are dying and fleeing their besieged lands.
Unrest ripples across Russia. Tensions brew in the Middle East.
Immigrants find themselves unwanted in America, targets of surveillance, arrest,...
From ‘Diaspora’ to ‘Jewish People’
eit Hatfutsot in Tel Aviv is commonly translated as the Museum of the Jewish Diaspora.
This is the name that appears on many English websites for travelers. In the last few years, however, the museum...
Watch Hollywood’s Greatest Movie Moments in Yiddish
The Yidlife Crisis duo, Jamie Elman & Eli Batalion, are back again with another hysterical video. This time, they took popular movies and dubbed over the classic scenes in Yiddish. The result? Hilariousness–and a much-needed...