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Song Festival fetes Bernstein on his centennial

The Tucson Desert Song Festival is celebrating Leonard Bernstein this year with a festival of festivals. • There's the song fest, with its impressive lineup of up-and-coming young vocalists and musicians. Thirty events over 20...

Holocaust film ‘The Testament’ breaks poignant new ground in a flooded genre

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NEW YORK — A title card before the start of “The Testament” states that it is “inspired by events that took place in the last days of WWII in Austria.” As the film opens in...

The Man Who Made The Beatles

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A Jew living in an anti-Semitic English culture, openly gay at a time when traditional mores still held wide sway, addicted to various drugs – some speculate he was a manic-depressive before a clinical...

‘Pop Art Rabbi’ Works Showcased at Chevra Gallery

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In the summer of 2016, Pokemon Go took over teens’ smartphones, as they walked around to various neighborhood spots on a quest to catch ’em all. The augmented reality setting of the app inspired Rabbi...

The 10 Best Jewish Jokes in ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’

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Amy Sherman-Palladino, the creator of Gilmore Girls, has gifted us with the Jewish feminist show we need right now. The protagonist is Miriam (Midge) Maisel, a 26-year-old Jewish housewife living on the Upper West Side...

Marvelous Mrs Maisel triumphs at Golden Globes

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A comedy about a 1950s Jewish housewife in New York has won Best Television Series at the 2018 Golden Globe awards. The Marvelous Mrs Maisel was honoured at Sunday’s ceremony at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly...

2018 Atlanta Jewish Festival: 74 Films in 23 Days

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A world-premiere feature documentary, the North American premiere of an epic, three-part documentary, and Israel’s Academy Award entry highlight the 74 movies filling 192 screenings in 23 days at the 2018 Atlanta Jewish Film Festival. The full...

Decade of restoration for churches, synagogues in Turkey

Although the number of devoted followers of Christianity and Judaism visiting the country has slowed down in the past few years, Turkey's drive to upkeep and revive ancient churches and synagogues has not. The Directorate-General...

2,700-year-old ‘governor of Jerusalem’ seal found

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JERUSALEM: Israeli archaeologists unveiled today a 2,700-year-old clay seal imprinted with images and Hebrew words that may have belonged to a biblical governor of Jerusalem. The round button-sized seal was found in a building in...

(Short Film) A Bookstore in Six Chapters

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Renee Saltiel and Solon Molho grew up in the largest Sephardic Jewish community in the world, Salonika, or Thessaloniki, in today’s Greece. More than 90,000 Jews lived there then. But by the time the Germans...