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American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. Souce: public domain/Wikimedia

‘Oppenheimer’ and the lesson of brainy Jews

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Finally, a movie about two Jews facing off in a war of ambitions, petty rivalries and contrasting moral absolutes—with actual wars in the background! (“Schindler’s List,” after all, is a film about two Nazis.) Christopher...
Art collage of the Manhattan Project. led by J. Robert Oppenheimer. Credit: Lia Koltyrina/Shutterstock

Nuclear story ‘not over,’ says author of book behind ‘Oppenheimer’ film

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Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster film “Oppenheimer,” now in theaters, explores the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer—the so-called “father” of the atomic bomb and one of history’s most famous and controversial Jews. One of the authors of the...
Gal Gadot. Credit: Gage Skidmore/Flickr.

Gal Gadot to become first Israeli actor with Walk of Fame star

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Gal Gadot will next year become the first Israeli actor or actress to be honored with a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. “This is unbelievable. I’m so, so grateful and thankful and humbled,” said Gadot...
Poster for the documentary film

‘Israelism’ assaults the truth and hurts Palestinians

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It’s too easy to criticize the new documentary “Israelism” and debunk its gross misrepresentation of the complex Israel-Palestinian conflict. But as bad as I feel for those who have to brave the propaganda, as...
Claude Lanzmanns audio archive, Jewish Museum Berlin. Photo by Roman März.

Holocaust audio archive at Jewish Museum Berlin now UNESCO ‘World Heritage’

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As of this month, the Jewish Museum Berlin is home to a collection of objects that is listed on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Memory of the World Register. The original 16mm and restored...
Photo of Sarah Bernhardt as Cleopatra by Napoléon Sarony (1891). Credit: Musée d'Orsay, Paris, ©RMN-Grand Palais/Hervé Lewandowski.

Sarah Bernhardt still ‘immortal’ 100 years after her death

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Carol Ockman, art history professor emerita at Williams College, wrote her first book proposal in the 1990s, years before she knew she would co-curate an exhibit on the same topic at New York’s Jewish...
From left: Siblings Anne, Sue, Nancy and Steven Spielberg, and lead actors Michelle Williams and Paul Dano at the premiere for “The Fabelmans,” Nov. 6, 2022. Credit: Featureflash Photo Agency/Shutterstock.

Nancy Spielberg: ‘We have to get people back into the theater’

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When Israeli filmmaker Tal Inbar approached Nancy Spielberg with her documentary “Closed Circuit,” about a deadly terrorist shooting at a Tel Aviv cafe in June 2016, Nancy Spielberg knew that she had to produce...
David and Avi Wisnia at a panel discussion as part of the International Conference on Education About Auschwitz and the Holocaust, October 26-29, 2015. Photo courtesy of Avi Wisnia.

How music led to a cantor’s survival story, and how it lives on in...

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April tends to feature a flurry of Holocaust-related arts pieces—from new exhibits to books to webinars and movies. One of them this year offers a through-the-generations feel that brings the past right into viewers’...
Image from the documentary film “Jews of the Wild West,” 2023. Source: Screenshot.

PBS documentary focuses on ‘Jews of the Wild West’

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Amanda Kinsey, an Emmy-award-winning filmmaker, came up with the idea of a documentary on Jews who lived in the Wild West while digging through the Beck Archives in the basement of the University of Denver library. “I was blown...
Jan and Miep Gies, Oct. 8, 1980. Credit: Marcel Antonisse/Anefo, National Archive via Wikimedia Commons.

‘A Small Light’ shines on Miep Gies, who kept Frank family hidden in Amsterdam

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National Geographic released the trailer from the upcoming eight-part limited series “A Small Light,” produced by ABC Signature and Keshet Studios. It will have a multi-network launch on May 1 at 9 p.m. EST...