Aged 100, Kirk Douglas reveals all the infidelities
“If I live to be 100, there will still be so many things unsaid,” Kirk Douglas wrote to his wife, Anne, in 1958, four years after their marriage in Las Vegas.
After marking his 100th...
Shalom Bollywood: The role of the jewish in Hindi cinema
Danny Ben-Moshe, an Australian documentary filmmaker, has been making a movie for the last 11 years. Titled Shalom Bollywood: The Untold Story of Indian Cinema, the documentary tells the stories of Jewish people in...
No shirt, no jews, no service: Jordan restaurants refusing to serve israelis
According to Israeli network Channel 2, Jordanians have been refusing service to Jewish customers as part of a general antipathy towards Israelis. One such traveler posted on Facebook that she and a friend were forced from an Aqaba restaurant after the owner...
The Farhoud remembered
On the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, June 1-2, 1941 (5701 on the Hebrew calendar), the Muslim residents of Baghdad carried out a savage pogrom against their Jewish compatriots. In this pogrom, known by its...
All the colors of Jewish education
Sometimes the world seems as if it’s divided into so many little never-intersecting bubbles that it’s coming out of a gigantic plastic wand a crazed giant is waving in the air.
We see the dangers...
Review: ‘Bad Jews’ will make you laugh, cringe and think
How fitting that the Actors’ Warehouse would select “Bad Jews” as the first offering in its classy new venue — a former church on Northeast First Street that has long since been repurposed from...
En un barko
En un barko avía un haham, un imam i un papás ke stavan kaminando.
El papás disho: “Mozotros rogamos ke kuantos guevos komemos en la Paskaliá, tantos de los Muzulmanos ke se mueran”.
El imam: “Mozotros...
LISTEN: Bob Dylan (Finally) delivers Nobel Lecture
The saga of Bob Dylan’s oddly ambivalent acceptance of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature is finally over, as the singer-songwriter presented his Nobel Lecture on June 4.
“When I received the Nobel Prize for...
Le stupéfiant cheminement de la haine antisémite en cent dessins
Lorsqu'il était jeune, Stéphane Grimaldi voulait être historien. Si la vie l'a finalement conduit au droit, il n'a pas oublié comment dérouler une histoire. Passer par les petites pour retracer la grande, tel est selon lui un...
The jews’ hospital
New York’s 45-bed Jews’ Hospital opened for patients on this date in 1855. It would change its name to the Mount Sinai Hospital after the Civil War. Founded by Sampson Simson, a philanthropist, on...