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Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra in the 1963 film on the Egyptian queen. (Photo/JTA-Universal History Archive-Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Posted inFilm

Decades before Gal Gadot, Elizabeth Taylor fell into controversy playing Cleopatra as a Jewish actress

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA October 13, 2020
Poet Louise Glück, seen here at the National Book Awards in New York City in 2014, is the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature. (Photo/JTA-Robin Marchant-Getty Images)
Posted inPoetry

WNBA’s Jewish Bird; Gadot as Cleopatra causes a flap; stars get naked for democracy; etc.

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 13, 2020October 13, 2020
“There were stacks and stacks, in perfect condition, torn hastily out of their frames and hidden,” photographer Amos Chapple said.
Posted inCulture

Hidden for decades, hundreds of Holocaust-era paintings need a new home 

by Toby Axelrod and JTA October 12, 2020October 12, 2020
Zuzanna Sorowy in "My Name Is Sara," the true story of 13-year-old Holocaust survivor Sara Goralnik.
Posted inTV & Film

Sonoma JCC’s film festival kicks off 25th anniversary year

Laura Pall by Laura Paull October 9, 2020October 15, 2020
“Fragile,” blown and sandblasted glass, by Carol Roseman.
Posted inSeniors

After long, eclectic career, her creative drive is a ‘volcano’

by Liz Harris October 8, 2020October 14, 2020
Niv Sultan as Tamir Rabinyan in "Tehran." (Photo/Apple TV+)
Posted inTV & Film

‘Tehran’ is a groundbreaking Israeli spy show about immigrant identity

Lior Zaltzman by Lior Zaltzman and JTA October 7, 2020
Tiburon novelist Leslie K. Barry is the author of "Newark Minutemen."
Posted inBooks

North Bay writer pens tale of Jewish mobsters fighting Nazis… in New Jersey

by Dan Pine October 7, 2020October 14, 2020
Wayne Reynolds looks through the rubble of the home and studio he shared with his wife, Caryn Fried. (Photo/Courtesy Maya Reynolds)
Posted inCulture

North Bay artists built a sanctuary, then fire wiped it out

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 7, 2020October 7, 2020
An animated Stephen Miller in Hip Hop Hoodíos' "Mexican Miller"
Posted inMusic

‘Mexican Miller’: Jewish Latino rappers take aim at Stephen Miller in new music video

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 6, 2020October 7, 2020
A screenshot from a Lost Tribe Esports tournament where participants played Rocket League, a game in which flying cars play soccer. (Screenshot)
Posted inNews

Jewish and into video games? There’s an esports league for that.

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA October 6, 2020October 6, 2020

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