Culture

That time Rachel McAdams tried to go undercover as an Orthodox Jew

The actress, who portrays an Orthodox woman in "Disobedience," visited a kosher grocery store and attended a Shabbat dinner in Los Angeles, but local Jews quickly caught on.

Chief Rabbinate telling more and more Israelis they aren’t Jews

With increasing frequency, the courts have placed Israelis, almost all of them immigrants with Jewish heritage, on lists that prevent them from marrying Jews.

A New Brazilian Holocaust Documentary as Beautiful as an Impressionist Painting

The new documentary Red Trees is unlike any Holocaust film we’ve seen. Visually stunning, it is filmmaker Marina Willer’s loving, poetic tribute to her father, Alfred, whose Jewish family was among the last dozen to survive Nazi-occupied Prague during World War II. While Willer intimately recounts a disrupted childhood, colorful, light-filled images of rippling waves, […]