2018 Atlanta Jewish Festival: 74 Films in 23 Days
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
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
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...
Atlanta Jewish Film Festival: Opening, Closing Lineups Announced
The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, the largest film-fest in Georgia drawing nearly 40,000 movie-goers each year, has announced its 2018 line up for several key nights, including opening and closing.
The festival, held at various...
Washington’s new Bible museum talks a lot about Jews. So why are some Jews...
Funded and founded by evangelicals, the new Museum of the Bible sticks out for something its leaders clearly wanted to emphasize: Jews.
The eight-story, cutting-edge $500 million institution, which opened last month and is already...
El silensyo de la noche
Un grito mudo se via en su mirada,
Se hue ravyoso,desho su boz adorada.
El era un marido mas ke un amante,
Garnido de un korason de diamante.
Eya kulpante de kavzar este revolto,
Hue abandonada por su mal...
Jewish trove hidden from Nazis gives up its secrets
For decades, a confessional in a church in Lithuania’s capital Vilnius kept a precious secret: a trove of documents offering an unprecedented glimpse into Jewish life in Eastern Europe before and during the Holocaust.
The...
La vida del Aktor “Leonard Nimoy”
Famoso por su presentasión de un medio umano i medio Vulcano en el karakter de “Mr.Spock” en la seria titulada “Star Treck”, Nimoy viene de murir en Los Angeles a la edad de 83 anios. El...
My Old Kentoki Home
According to conventional non-wisdom, American Jewish literature started in a Lower East Side sweatshop and then migrated to New Jersey, where it has remained until Philip Roth’s retirement. Of course, reading this way necessitates...