Culture

After surviving several years in prison as a kid, and then nursing a dying former Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, eventually facilitating his conversion to Judaism, Michael Weisser should have little trouble reviving a failing Reform synagogue in Queens. A remarkable story in the New York TImes: Last Friday night, the topics of […]

Like Wall Street and the corporate law firm, Hollywood is one of those storied locales where the American Jewish success story is supposedly written (and dramatized, filmed, promoted, and re-released on DVD). But Lewis Beale, writing Sunday in the L.A. Times, says that films like "Defiance" (and its like-minded predecessor, "Munich") offer a marked departure […]