‘Closeness,’ story of caucasus jewish family, wins Cannes’s International Critics’ Award
“Closeness,” by 26-year-old Russian director Kantemir Balagov, set in his home city of Nalchik in 1998, has won the Cannes Festival’s International Critics’ Award on Saturday.
The plot is based on a story Balagov says...
JerusaLENS International Photo Challenge Exhibition
The Jerusalem International Photography Challenge Exhibition will be held between June 6th to August 6th at the Ammunition Hill by KKL-JNF along with JNF USA, Ammunition Hill, the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Tourism, Jerusalem...
Sid Jacobson JCC’s Jewish Film Festival opens June 21
Sid Jacobson JCC’s Randi and Bruce Pergament Jewish Film Festival opens on Wednesday, June 21, at 7:30 p.m. with the documentary On the Map. The festival features documentaries, comedies and short films.
On the Map...
Florine Stettheimer’s vision of equality
Along with Marsden Hartley, Georgia O’Keeffe, Archibald Motley, Arshile Gorky, and Horace Pippin, Florine Stettheimer is one of the great American painters in the first half of the 20th century. There are lots of...
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...