In Mexico City, a young artist’s affair threatens her Syrian-Jewish community
Set in Mexico City, “Leona” is a coming of age tale that follows a young female muralist who falls in love with a non-Jewish Mexican and winds up essentially disinherited from her own community. The Spanish-language film, which marks the impressive debut of writer-director Issac Cherem — who hails from the tightly-knit, Syrian-Jewish community where his film takes place — touches on marginalization, female agency, immigration and community.
The trippy, far-out artist who refused to support the Nazis
Throughout his life, M.C. Escher was dumbfounded and at, at times, irritated by his popularity among counterculture youth.
Against all odds, Holocaust survivors retain their optimism — and their music
In “Saul and Ruby’s Holocaust Survivor Band,” the elderly members of a klezmer band celebrate their unlikely triumph.
Yes, he sold art to the Nazis — but was he a traitor or a hero?
In ‘The Last Vermeer,’ starring Guy Pearce and Claes Bang, a notorious forger is charged with selling a Vermeer to Nazi leader Herman Goring.
43 years after Skokie, Ira Glasser is still fighting for free speech
The 82-year-old former ACLU director was inspired by Jackie Robinson and the Brooklyn Dodgers. He’s the subject of “Mighty Ira,” a new documentary.
Gloria Steinem is having a moment — so why doesn’t she seem more relevant?
In addition to the new film “The Glorias,” Steinem has been dramatized in an off-Broadway play, documentaries and biopics.
How a Jewish marketing whiz tried to save old-time Russian hockey
In the documentary “Red Penguins,” a slew of odd bedfellows including Michael J. Fox and Michael Eisner try to save the Red Army hockey team.
In Nazi-era Austria, he needed a father; he found Sigmund Freud
In “The Tobacconist,” as Nazis come to power, the father of psychoanalysis befriends a young Austrian man.
‘I wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing if I wasn’t a Jew’ — Tamar Manasseh’s brave journey
Being Black tells you something “should” be done. Being Jewish tells you it “can” be done.
Introducing Marcel Marceau, resistance fighter — starring Jesse Eisenberg
“Marceau had an agility and grace which I don’t have,” said Jesse Eisenberg who plays the legendary mime in the new film “Resistance.”