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A 3D-printed prosthetic ear being attached to a six-year-old boy. Photo courtesy of Galilee Medical Center

Israeli surgeons print an ear to correct boy’s deformity

Brian Blum, Israel21cPublished April 27, 2022

Israeli doctors 3D-printed an ear and attached it to a six-year-old boy born with microtia, a deformity that stops the development of a baby’s ear in the womb, usually during the first trimester of pregnancy. Using a 3D printer, staff from the plastic...

"We Remember: Songs of Survivors" now available on Nine PBS

“We Remember: Songs of Survivors” now available on Nine PBS

Dan Buffa, Special For The Jewish LightPublished April 27, 2022

"Many documentaries exist about the Holocaust. However, few have taken such a unique approach to telling these horrific stories." In remembering something so life-changing and tragic, yet hopeful and connective in its actions and impact, doing...

HBO to produce comedy series about Hasidic rapper Nissim Black

HBO to produce comedy series about Hasidic rapper Nissim Black

Published April 27, 2022

(JTA) – HBO Max is currently producing a new comedy series based on the life of former gang member-turned-Hasidic-rapper Nissim Black.  Black, who lives in Israel, announced the upcoming show on Twitter on Monday, writing that he hopes “this series...

Israeli musician David Broza is helping ‘re-envision’ Friday night services

Israeli musician David Broza is helping ‘re-envision’ Friday night services

Published April 27, 2022

(New York Jewish Week) — When Gady Levy, the executive director of the Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center, approached Israeli singer-songwriter David Broza about composing new music for a Friday night Shabbat service, the musician was skeptical. “My...

56 hidden letters unearth one woman's unknowable Holocaust past

56 hidden letters unearth one woman’s unknowable Holocaust past

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished April 27, 2022

(JWA) - After a career spent telling other people's stories, Eleanor Reissa has finally uncovered her own. In 1986, when her mother died at the age of sixty-four, Eleanor went through all of her belongings. In the back of her mother’s lingerie drawer,...

From the left: Moishe (Morris), Mailekh (Marcel), and Khil (Harry) Lenga in either Rome or Stuttgart, circa 1945. Lenga family collection.

St. Louisan Harry Lenga beat the Nazis by fixing watches to survive

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished April 26, 2022

On this, Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah), we honor the victims, remember the survivors, and educate the community about the history and lessons of the Holocaust. One such story has become a book, which will be released later this summer.  "The...

How the Holocaust survival story "The Survivor" was made into a movie

How the Holocaust survival story “The Survivor” was made into a movie

Published April 25, 2022

More than 80 years after the end of the Holocaust we are once again living in a time of rising antisemitism, and watching genocide happen, this time in Ukraine. These facts make it even more crucial that we continue to remember and pass down the stories...

Travel + Leisure names Dead Sea #1 healing spot for 2022

Travel + Leisure names Dead Sea #1 healing spot for 2022

Abigail Klein Leichman, Israel21cPublished April 25, 2022

Travel + Leisure’s list of 10 recommended healing destinations around the world for 2022 is topped by the Dead Sea. This unique body of water, bordered by Israel and Jordan at the lowest point on Earth is called the Salt Sea in Hebrew because...

Glenn Close is fierce in season 2 of this thrilling Israeli show

Glenn Close is fierce in season 2 of this thrilling Israeli show

By Lior Zaltzman, KvellerPublished April 25, 2022

One of the most suspenseful Israeli shows ever made is finally coming back for season two this May. “Tehran” is about an Israeli Mossad agent (Niv Sultan) with Persian roots who gets stuck on a mission in the Iranian capital. Apple TV+ just released...

"Woman’s Day" magazine's appointed "rabbi in residence" is a man

“Woman’s Day” magazine’s appointed “rabbi in residence” is a man

JACKIE HAJDENBERG, JTAPublished April 25, 2022

(JTA) — For health content, the women who edit "Woman’s Day" turn to a panel of 25 experts — all but one of them women. When it comes to fitness, food, nutrition, and homemaking, the 91-year-old magazine for American women relies on women as...

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Supporting Mila: What to watch and know this week in Jewish entertainment 

Dan Buffa, Special For The Jewish LightPublished April 25, 2022

Ever since the war in Ukraine broke out, actress Mila Kunis has taken on her greatest role yet: activist. One that could be called recurring due to the ferociousness of the war. Kunis and her partner, Ashton Kutcher, have donated time and money to the...

Netflix’s ‘Russian Doll’ features a Hungarian ‘Gold Train’ filled with Nazi loot. What’s the real story?

Netflix’s ‘Russian Doll’ features a Hungarian ‘Gold Train’ filled with Nazi loot. What’s the real story?

Published April 25, 2022

(JTA) — When Season 2 of “Russian Doll,” Natasha Lyonne’s sci-fi exploration of identity and trauma, dropped on Netflix Friday, it immediately became clear that teasers of the season’s Jewish content were not overblown. In the season, which...

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