By Naomi Pfefferman, Arts & Entertainment Editor, The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
• Published January 4, 2012
Stieg Larsson, the Swedish author of the international best-selling "Millennium" series, including "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," died in 2004 at age 50 of a heart attack, before the publication of his crime thrillers made him one of the most famous...
By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published August 31, 2011
Three young Mossad agents return to a heroes' welcome in 1965 Israel from their mission to capture a Nazi war criminal, the notorious "Surgeon of Birkenau." But on that long ago mission they made a pact and, now middle-aged, Rachel Singer (Helen Mirrren)...
By Cate Marquis, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published June 8, 2011
"Habermann" is a thought-provoking movie about the expulsion of ethnic Germans from Czechoslovakia after the end of World War II in 1945. This complex film is a disturbing drama focused on the toxic nature of ethnic hatred. Czech director Juraj Herz...
WASHINGTON - Sixty-five years ago at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, 22 defendants stood in the dock. They represented a cross-section of Nazi diplomatic, economic, political and military leadership, and became the first people...
By Cate Marquis, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published April 27, 2011
"Winter in Wartime" is a moving, suspenseful and well-crafted coming-of-age drama set in a snowy 1945 Nazi-occupied Holland. Beautifully photographed and based on Dutch author Jan Terlouw's "award-winning" semi-autobiographical novel "Oorlogswinter,"...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published April 27, 2011
In the predawn hours of Sunday, June 22, 1941 millions of German troops accompanied by thousands of tanks and armored vehicles swarmed over the Soviet frontier and in doing so launched one of the largest invasions in the history of combat. Codenamed Operation...
Hundreds of St. Louisans will mark the largest annual community-wide Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) at 4 p.m. Sunday, May 1 at Congregation Shaare Emeth, 11645 Ladue Road, in Creve Coeur. The program, supported by Leo and Sara Wolf through the...
