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.”
Diagnosing Anti-Semitism as a virulent disease
In France, Great Britain, Hungary and America, filmmaker Andrew Goldberg finds four mutations of anti-Semitism.
Charlotte Gainsbourg: Not Your Typical Jewish Mother
Charlotte Gainsbourg, star of “Promise at Dawn,” weighs in on Judaism, her father, Lars Von Trier’s anti-Semitism and the “Me Too” movement.