This year’s Oscar foreign film race is full of movies on the Holocaust and anti-Semitism
Russia's "Sobibor," centers on Jewish inmates' escape from the camp and the Dutch “The Resistance Banker,” is about a a man who financed Nazi resistance.
Life & Culture
-
-
NJ store to close after a century of suiting up bar mitzvah boys — and the occasional mobster
Sam’s Fine Men’s Clothing began as a pushcart in Newark's 19th century Jewish neighborhood.
-
How a Chinese fruit became a Sukkot symbol
This New York rabbi wrote the book on the etrog's history.
-
An Israeli singer in Amsterdam creates the world’s first Ladino pop album
Noam Vazana's earliest childhood memories are of her grandmother singing in what is now a dying Jewish-Sephardic language.
-
A new Torah scroll symbolizes a Liberal Jewish revival in the Czech Republic
A scroll is read for the first time in over 50 years in the country of its origin.
-
Yankees and Red Sox meet in rare midweek day game due to Yom Kippur
The game was scheduled for 1 p.m. Tuesday in order to avoid conflicting with Judaism’s holiest day.
-
‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ wins 8 Emmy Awards
The show also included Roseanne jokes, and a sweet moment for Henry Winkler.
-
Cleveland Browns sign Jewish kicker Greg Joseph
By Ed CarrollJoseph, a record-setter at Florida Atlantic University, played football and soccer at a South Florida Jewish day school.
-
The ‘best football player who grew up in Israel’ seeks a spot at US college
Yuval Fenta, the son of Ethiopian immigrants, led Israel’s national team to a 2015 European championship.
-
An Afro-Cuban-Yiddish opera tells the story of a Jewish refugee
Grammy-winning Klezmer musician Frank London wanted to create a Yiddish opera that was innovative rather than nostalgic.
