Israel has developed a flourishing film industry, with movies competing in international film festivals and winning numerous awards. In Israel, a country of just eight million people, there are ten film schools and seven international film festivals.
That...
Zoe Lister-Jones doesn’t know how to not be Jewish. The actor-writer-director is no stranger to the indie film scene, having starred in movies like “Arranged,” a heartwarming but grounded story of friendship between Jewish and Muslim women, and...
Sydnie Grosberg Ronga wasn’t supposed to be directing “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar” because the play, presented by Max & Louie Productions, was supposed to be performed last summer. Of course, we know that...
The St. Louis Art Museum attracts art lovers from around the country. But, did you know that this treasure located at the top of Art Hill in Forest Park houses a truly impressive collection of Jewish art in many forms. Jewish Art Inside the St. Louis...
Midway through "Late Marriage," a 2001 Israeli drama that just dropped on ChaiFlicks this week, a family splits into two cars outside an apartment for a stakeout. Whispering and conniving under the darkness of night, they are there for a reason.
This...
Mary Dearborn, THE FORWARD
• Published July 23, 2021
This article originally appeared at forward.com. Reposted with permission.
Editor’s Note: Ernest Hemingway would have turned 122 today. He was a celebrated writer and a larger-than-life public figure. But, both in his private correspondence and...
Andrew Silverstein, THE FORWARD
• Published July 23, 2021
In a suburban Boston retirement community resides one of the most successful living Jewish American authors, the 94-year-old Noah Gordon. His book sales are over 25 million and his name is often mentioned in the same breath as Ken Follett’s. He’s...
By Binyamin Kagedan/JNS.org
• Published July 23, 2021
Everyone loves a happy ending. Jewish holiday ritual, though it has its share of melancholy moments, usually prefers to go out on a high note.
This week, many Jews will celebrate Tu B’Av, a day that has become known, especially in Israel, as...
Henry Sapoznik, THE FORWARD
• Published July 22, 2021
2021 marks the 50th anniversary of the closing of the Fillmore East the iconic theater that early on was dubbed by a member of the Grateful Dead, as “The Church of Rock n Roll.” And, while the Fillmore is best known for the way it mainstreamed youth...
CENTER FOR ISRAEL EDUCATION
• Published July 22, 2021
July 22, 1939 — Actress Gila Almagor Is Born
Gila Almagor, the “queen of the Israeli cinema and theater,” is born in Haifa four months after a sniper killed her policeman father. She makes her debut for the Habima Theatre at age 17 in “The Skin...
Victor Borge, born Børge Rosenbaum, was a Jewish Danish humorist and musician born in Copenhagen. He learned piano at the age of three, and it was soon regarded as a prodigy. By the age of 8, was giving full piano recitals. In 1918 he was awarded a full...
There’ll be bubble soccer and fire-breathing. Pool volleyball and flower pounding. Israeli dancing and rock climbing. And there won’t be a single Zoom screen in sight.
That’s the plan for the first in-person retreat since the start of the pandemic...
