Battling rare illness, journalist forges ahead with musical tribute to Jewish moms
Sometimes, even the most adult person just wishes their mom could make it stop hurting.
Desire to honor his late mother has prompted one New York City man to organize a concert in her memory...
Israeli director Alma Har’el signs TV deal with Amazon Studios
Alma Har’el, the award-winning Israeli director behind Shia LaBeouf’s 2019 autobiographical drama “Honey Boy,” has penned a television deal with Amazon Studios.
Har’el and her newly formed production company, Zusa, will work with the studio...
Israeli researcher named National Geographic Society ‘Emerging Explorer’
The National Geographic Society named University of Haifa professor Dr. Aviad Scheinin as one of its “Emerging Explorers” in 2021—one of 15 individuals it described as changing the world “one idea at a time.”
In an announcement...
Graduation marks new class of leaders in Jewish law
The Susi Bradfield Women’s Institute for Halakhic Leadership (WIHL) of the Ohr Torah Stone network commemorated the graduation of its 2021 class, attended by hundreds of family and friends.
Three women—Rabbanit Dr. Hannah Hashkes, Rabbanit...
House introduces bipartisan bill to award Nuremberg trials prosecutor with Congressional Gold Medal
A bipartisan group of the members of the U.S. House of Representatives introduced a bill on Thursday to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the last living prosecutor of the Nuremberg trials.
The bill was introduced by...
Celebrated character actor Mark Margolis dies at 83
Most recently bringing to life the unforgettable crime boss Hector Salamanga in 22 episodes of “Better Call Saul” and eight episodes of its predecessor “Breaking Bad,” Jewish actor Mark Margolis has died at the age of...
Conference in Kiev for JDC volunteers focuses on Jewish responsibility and identity
More than 250 Jewish volunteers and professionals from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s regional volunteer center network joined together in Kiev, Ukraine, for expert presentations, educational sessions and team-building exercises aimed at strengthening...
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Survivors’ descendants, youth, to carry on Holocaust education
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here is a continuing focus on Holocaust education in the county, with the Lawrence Family JCC and the J Company Youth Theatre announcing a planned “Remembrance Reading” at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the JCC,...
June 12, 1899: The famous photographer Ascher Fellig was born
Ascher Fellig, an immigrant from Lemberg, Galicia who gained fame as Weegee, the photojournalist, was born on this date in 1899.
Weegee worked mostly at night and built a network of social contacts and short-wave...
The Squeaky Door
In honor of the yahrtzeit of Ze’ev Jabotinsky, here is an excerpt from Chapter 13 of the historical novel, “The Lion’s Roar,” the third volume in the “Tevye in the Promised Land” series by...