‘Image of Victory’ shows limits of idealism
There’s just as much singing and dancing as there is armed combat in Israeli director Avi Nesher’s film “Image of Victory.”
In the final days...
Leonard Cohen doc will have you saying ‘Hallelujah’
For a documentary to be worth your while, its subject needs to have historical weight. I think of some of the better documentaries or...
Shoresh gears up for its first Jewish music festival
Yona Openden, a co-chair of Shoresh’s Jewish Roots Music Festival, hopes the festival will provide younger generations of Jewish people with an opportunity to...
How an ‘accessible’ Mishnah ended up with a price tag of $645
By Jackie Hajdenberg
As an avid book collector who operates an inde-pendent Jewish press, Larry Yudelson was excited to learn that a new, annotated version...
Billy Crystal performs ‘Yiddish scat’ at the Tony Awards
By Andrew Lapin
“Ella Fitzgerald, wherever you are, I apologize in advance.”
Billy Crystal gave this year’s Tonys a jolt of Jewish shtick when he coaxed...
Next up for Adam Sandler’s production company: A YA bat mitzvah novel adaptation
By Caleb Guedes-Reed
Last month, Adam Sandler threw his daughter a star-studded bat mitzvah party.
Now, it looks like his production company is making a bat...
“Let There Be Light” finds meaning between the lines
By Sasha Rogelberg
Liana Finck’s “Let There Be Light: The Real Story of Her Creation” is hardly the first time a mere mortal reinterpreted the...
Netflix releases photos of Bradley Cooper wearing prosthetic nose to portray Leonard Bernstein
By Gabe Friedman
As Netflix released the first stills from the set of “Maestro,” Bradley Cooper’s biopic film about Leonard Bernstein that will likely be...
Before WWII, Jewish mobsters kept Nazis at bay in the US — with their...
By Howard Lovy
The way author Michael Benson tells it, one day in 1938, New York judge and Jewish communal leader Nathan Perlman sat at...
You Should Know … Arielle Zorger
Through her work as an artist, Arielle Zorger, 35, shows others that doing something you love makes working a lot easier.
After growing up in...
