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Posted inOff the Shelf

Daughters of Holocaust survivors uncover old stories in new memoirs

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman June 4, 2020July 8, 2020
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his residence in Jerusalem, Feb. 28, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Gali Tibbon-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inCulture

‘Bibi,’ TV series about Benjamin Netanyahu, is in the works

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA June 3, 2020June 4, 2020
Emily L. Quint Freeman (Photo/Carlos Zarate)
Posted inBooks

‘Failure to Appear’: At 73, this Vietnam-era anti-war fugitive is telling her story of 20 years on the run

by Liz Harris June 2, 2020July 8, 2020
The Haifa Municipal Band playing in the 1933 Bikurim parade. (Photo/ GPO via Wikipedia)
Posted inShavuot

When Haifa was party central at Shavuot

Rachel NeimanISRAEL21c logo by Rachel Neiman and ISRAEL21c May 27, 2020
Ben Cole as President Charles Linbergh (left) and John Turturro as Rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf in "The Plot Against America." (HBO)
Posted inHistory

FDR had a Jewish strategy much like the one in ‘Plot Against America’

Rafael Medoff by Rafael Medoff May 26, 2020May 26, 2020
Patti Lupone as Avis Amberg in “Hollywood/” (Photo/Saeed Adyani-Netflix)
Posted inTV & Film

In alternate history of ‘Hollywood,’ diverse characters get to act out their ambitions

Esther D. Kustanowitz by Esther D. Kustanowitz May 26, 2020May 26, 2020
Loud Jewish comedian Sarah Silverman will soon voice an animated Santa Claus. (Photo/Gage Skidmore-Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inCelebrity Jews

Sarah Silverman is Santa Claus; Disney’s Jewish prince; Ben Platt hangs with Beanie Feldstein; etc.

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 25, 2020
German immigrant Edward Kusel opened photo galleries and variety shops in California’s Central Valley. (Photo/Courtesy Arcadia Publishing)
Posted inBooks

New book tells Jewish stories of the Gold Rush

by Liz Harris May 21, 2020July 8, 2020
In “Viral: Antisemitism in Four Mutations” Rabbi Elisar Admon shows the hole where a bullet pierced his prayer book during the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh. "It went right through the word for god."
Posted inFilm

Anti-Semitism examined as a social virus in new PBS doc

Laura Pall by Laura Paull May 20, 2020
Evan Wolkenstein is the author of "Turtle Boy." (Photo/Fred Greene; detail from book cover)
Posted inBooks

Q&A: JCHS teacher discusses his debut novel, ‘Turtle Boy’

Laura Pall by Laura Paull May 20, 2020May 20, 2020

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