Linda Buchwald
By Linda Buchwald
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Culture In New Yorker doc ‘Nina & Irena,’ a director helps his grandmother open up about the Holocaust
Daniel Lombroso sees “Nina & Irena,” his film about his grandmother, as a coda to his 2020 documentary “White Noise”
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Culture A new film unspools the storied life of Jewish outsider artist and Nuremberg trials guard Nathan Hilu
“Nathan-ism,” a film by Elan Golod about a LES artist who guarded Nazis as a young soldier during the Nuremberg trials, premieres in New York
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Culture David Strathairn plays historic Holocaust witness Jan Karski in PBS’s ‘Remember This’
The film is airing as part of the Great Performances series and will be accompanied by a documentary about Karski, a non-Jewish Pole who infiltrated the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942
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Fast Forward TV star Lisa Edelstein captures her Jewish family in a solo painting exhibit
The actress finds inspiration for her newest vocation in old family photographs
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Fast Forward Turner Classic Movies is airing a ‘Jewish Experience’ series of films this month
Here are all of the movies being shown, from a classic Gene Wilder-Harrison Ford Western to multiple Holocaust-themed flicks from French New Wave directors
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Culture Hulu’s ‘The Patient’ gets at a dynamic rarely seen on TV: Orthodox-Reform tensions
The series’ protagonist is a Jewish therapist whose family is strained when his son joins an Orthodox community
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Fast Forward Beanie Feldstein opens up on ‘Funny Girl’ role: ‘Incredibly meaningful for me as a Jewish woman’
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week) — “Funny Girl” is so deeply ingrained in Beanie Feldstein’s life that she doesn’t even remember the first time she watched the movie. “From my developmental psychology classes in college, I think I remember that your first memories are around 3 years old,” she told the New York Jewish…
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Culture Patti LuPone Isn’t A Jew — But She Plays One On Broadway
Patti LuPone recently discovered that she has something in common with Helena Rubinstein, the makeup mogul and Polish Jewish immigrant she is currently portraying in the Broadway musical “War Paint.” Using the genealogy website 23andMe, she found out that she is 87% Southern Italian and 12% Eastern European and North African. That means she may…
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