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Am I small? Bin ikh kleyn?: English-Yiddish: Children’s Picture Book (Bilingual Edition), by Philipp...

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English-Yiddish Bilingual Edition "Am I small?" - Tamia is not sure and keeps asking various animals that she meets on her journey. Eventually she finds the surprising answer... By Philipp Winterberg (Author), Nadja Wichmann (Illustrator), Sandra...

Book Review: ‘Newcomers in an Ancient Land’

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For the most part, this is a pleasant if tentative memoir, which will be informative for people contemplating a first trip from the United States  to Israel, but which otherwise breaks no new ground. ...

Film Review: ‘Last’ imagines Nazi who posed as a Jew

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In Jeff Lipsky’s film Last, Joshua, a modern Orthodox Jew, and his recently converted wife, Olivia, are sitting in beach chairs, having what started as a pleasant conversation with Joshua’s 92-year-old maternal great grandmother, Claire, about...

Moe Berg’s surprising double life

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The Spy Behind Home Plate, a documentary on the life of Moe Berg by Aviva Kempner, opening June 28 at the Landmark Ken Theater, 4061 Adams Avenue, San Diego. In baseball, an all-around player is one...
An exhibit featuring Jewish jewelry from the Islamic world. Credit: Museum for Islamic Art.

Exhibit at Museum for Islamic Art features Jewish jewelers from the Arab world

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The Museum for Islamic Art in Jerusalem, with a mission of promoting interfaith dialogue, has opened a “past and present” jewelry exhibit featuring a section that highlights the Jewish amuletic jewelry in the communities of the Islamic world. According to its...
Conservative radio and TV personality Mark Levin appearing on Fox News. Credit: Screenshot.

Deconstructing where American media has gone wrong

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You just know that in the place where irony is calibrated, the needle on the meter must be going crazy. Over at the newspaper that boasts it prints “all the news that fits,” they have...
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Despite pressure, film about rising anti-Semitism in Europe gets Jerusalem screening

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After several venues canceled screenings at the last minute, a controversial documentary film directed by U.K. right-wing media figure Katie Hopkins was shown in Jerusalem Tuesday evening at the Uri Zvi Greenberg Legacy House. In...

‘Fiddler’ pulls heart strings at San Diego’s Civic Theatre

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There was an obvious division in the house on Wednesday night at a performance of Fiddler on the Roof at the Civic Theatre downtown. There were those in the packed audience who never had seen the musical...

Play review: ‘My Ex- Step- Mother- in- Law’

Actually, the one-woman show of the above title that I saw last week has very little to do with the subject of the title, namely, mothers-in-law. I am one such, and even an ex-one...

Netflix Begins Production on Part-Yiddish Series ‘Unorthodox’

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'Deutschland 83' Actress Maria Schrader Set to Direct ROBERT MITCHELL Netflix has announced the start of production on its Yiddish- and English-language German series “Unorthodox,” which is shooting in Berlin. The streaming giant is partnering with “Deutschland...