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Award-winning documentary about Roman Jews during the Nazi occupation to be shown at Ocean...

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What was the experience of Roman Jews living in Nazi occupied Rome? The public is invited to a free screening, an adult program, of the award-winning documentary film Oro Macht Frei (Gold Will Set...

The best Jewish, Israeli films of 2017 so far

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First rule of screenwriting, whether you are doing a fiction film or a documentary: Without conflict there is no story. Perhaps that is why Jewish-themed movies are so often effective. We are in conflict with...

Lift the veil and behold ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’

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SAN DIEGO — “A woman must endure.”  The Old Globe tears the veil open in a play by Ursula Rani Sarma based on the book by Khaled Hosseini, and what we see is heartbreaking. Afghanistan. We hear...

Gustav Mahler: Jewish Identity and Nineteenth-Century Musical Culture

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Thursday, November 30, 2017, 6:00 PM A Pre-Concert Lecture with Dr. Daniel Jütte (NYU) -- To be followed at 7:00 PM by Cantata Profana performing Gustav Mahler's "Das Lied von der Erde" and works by Strauss, Meyerbeer, Schoenberg, and Lewandowski that place Mahler's...

What a Jewish teacher learns in United Arab Emirates

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A Jewish American working in the United Arab Emirates fears hostility but finds humanity in this debut memoir. Fleeing divorce and midlife crisis, journalist Eden left Ohio in 2008 to take a teaching job at the...

Move Over, French & Italian. The World’s Sexiest Accent is…..Israeli!

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What accent do single men think is the sexiest? You might guess French or Italian, but you'd be wrong according to the latest poll. Surprise! It's Israeli. As Benyamin Cohen wrote on the website From...
Host Molly Yeh, as seen on “Girl Meets Farm,” Season 1. Credit: Food Network.

‘Girl Meets Farm’: Food Network to feature urban-country cuisine from Jewish-Chinese chef

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A new Food Network show premiering this month stars best-selling cookbook author, food blogger and chef Molly Yeh, whose one-of-a-kind recipes are inspired by her Jewish-Chinese roots, the Midwest and farm life. In the seven-episode...

Surviving Amid Chaos: Israel’s Nuclear Strategy, by Prof. Louis René Beres

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This timely and original scholarly book critically examines Israel’s rapidly evolving nuclear strategy, a subject with which the author has been authoritatively acquainted for many years. Now facing an unprecedented configuration of existential threats,...

“From Kabul to Queens: the Jews of Afghanistan”

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‘From Kabul to Queens: the Jews of Afghanistan and Their Move to the United States,’ a new book, on a topic which has not widely been explored, was presented and discussed by the author...

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...