Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, of Chicago, is first US-born pope, Leo XIV
Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, 69, a Chicago native, was elected as the new pope of the Catholic Church on Thursday. He will be called Leo XIV.
The first U.S.-born pope is also a Peruvian citizen...
Anti-Zionism on Campus
The demonization and delegitimization of Israel and bigotry directed toward Jewish faculty, staff, and students is increasing at dramatic rates on university and college campuses.
In these supposedly intellectual spaces, virulently anti-Israel “scholars” and student-activists connected to,...
Rabbi Riskin’s new book portrays Judaism as a love story
What keeps the Jewish people going? Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, the charismatic and eloquent Brooklyn, N.Y.-born educator who became a moderate voice of Modern Orthodoxy in Israel, provides an inspirational answer in his new book, Judaism:...
Against all odds, seven siblings in Berlin survived the Holocaust
Would you hide me?
That’s a hypothetical question that Beth Lane asks several Berlin youths in her directorial debut, “Unbroken.” The answers they give her might surprise some. The documentary chronicles how her mother, five...
Chaim Grade’s last Yiddish novel ‘Sons and Daughters’ finally available in English
When millions of Yiddish-speaking Eastern European Jews perished in the Holocaust, their stories, culture and way of life were wiped out with them.
One survivor, the novelist Chaim Grade, made it his life’s mission to...
A ‘Bad Shabbos’ makes good comedy
Director and writer Daniel Robbins was looking for a different kind of comedy when producer Adam Mitchell had an idea that he had never seen done on screen before. Robbins, who is a Modern...
New book advocates for rights of Jewish children
B’nai B’rith Portugal, in partnership with the London-based International Observatory of Human Rights, has released a bilingual book titled "The Universal Rights of Children." The publication, released in time for both the Jewish holiday of...
For Mel Brooks, world history (no joke!) repeats itself
Nearly 40 years after his “History of the World, Part I” debuted in 1981, Mel Brooks released “History of the World, Part II” on the eve of Purim, which began on March 6.
Brooks (he’ll...
Holocaust drama ‘Bau, Artist at War’ to premiere in September
“Bau, Artist at War,” a historical drama directed by Sean McNamara (“Reagan,” “Soul Surfer”), will have its theatrical release by ShowBiz Direct in the United States and Canada on Sept. 26. The film, which stars Emile Hirsch as real-life Holocaust survivor and artist Joseph...
‘Blind Spot’ documentary on campus antisemitism premieres on JBS
In a timely and urgent cinematic release, the Jewish Broadcasting Service (JBS) will host the exclusive television premiere of “Blind Spot” a searing new documentary that confronts one of the most troubling phenomena in...