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Kane Street Synagogue’s Brooklyn Israel Film Festival Brings The Movies To Shul
For film lovers the cinema can be a kind of temple. For 15 years the Kane Street Synagogue has been taking that truth to heart, hosting the Brooklyn Israel Film Festival in the same building in which its congregants meet for services. This year the festival is adding a short film series, screening an Israeli…
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The 15 Women You’ll Meet When You Date Jews In New York
Women — fun to hang out with, interesting, beautiful, rarely murder anyone, gestate life, socialized to be empathetic and good at communication. What’s to mock? Not to mention that the roots of negative female archetypes can usually be traced to the dang patriarchy! But if we don’t make fun of women, we exclude them from…
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Film & TV The BAFTA Awards Favor ‘The Favourite’ And These Jewish Films
In a busy awards season, it’s easy to forget the BAFTAs. But the British Academy of Film and Television Arts has not forgotten the Jewish people. The Academy’s 2019 Film Awards list was released Tuesday. The full list is here, but below are the (mostly) Jewish highlights. “The Favourite,” Yorgos Lanthimos’ comedy about Queen Anne’s…
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7 Must-Sees At The 2019 New York Jewish Film Festival
For 28 years the New York Jewish Film Festival has been providing Upper West-Siders and Jewish cinephiles the world over a chance to view the highlights of Jew-centric cinema. But oh, the tsuris! There’s simply too much to see and it can be hard to know where to start. Don’t worry; the Forward has you…
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February 2-3: Helsinki, Finland: Yiddish For The New Millennium At Limud Helsinki
If you find yourself in Finland in February, join Rukhl Schaechter, editor of the Yiddish Forward (Forverts), at the southern capital for Limud Helsinki, an annual Jewish cultural learning festival. The programs, which run the weekend of February 2 and 3, are diverse and plentiful, and Schaechter will lead three. The first talk, “How the…
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Ehud Barak, Alice Shalvi And Nazi-Hunting Couple Win National Jewish Book Awards
The winners of the 2018 National Jewish Book Awards include one of Israel’s foremost statesmen, a couple who kept their love alive by hunting Nazis together and the matriarch of Israeli feminism. Announced on January 9, the winners of the Jewish Book Council’s annuals awards present a broad vision of contemporary Judaism and its interests….
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Why Serge And Beate Klarsfeld Became Nazi Hunters
“My father had died in Auschwitz and I had behind me the suffering of French Jews. Beate carried with her the knowledge of Germany’s role in this suffering. Besides, we were naive and full of energy, so we did things we might not do when older and wiser.” Serge Klarsfeld paused and smiled at me….
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Here’s Why History Matters
Even Rupert Murdoch can’t take it any more. “We cannot recall a more absurd misstatement of history by an American President,” the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board declared last week, under the headline, “Trump’s Cracked Afghan History.” Until then, the paper had managed to suck it up. It had held its tongue when Trump was…
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Lin-Manuel Miranda And The ‘Hamilton’ Team Buy New York’s Drama Book Shop
In the world of preposterous Manhattan rents, many small businesses have no control over who lives, who dies or who tells their story. For the Drama Book Shop, a Midtown institution dating back to 1916 (though the signage mistakenly says 1917), a crew of dramatic patriots is trying to control the narrative and protect the…
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Film & TV What Does The Bible Say About #FijiWaterGirl And The Jews?
Well before our people sighted the tropic climes of Fiji, plumbed its waters for bottling and produced a photo-bombing icon, we were debating the nature of selling H20. As reported earlier, Fiji Water’s shifty business practices ought not be forgotten, but what does scripture have to say about them? To learn the answer, the Forward…
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This ‘Godot’ Uses Yiddish To Speak Up For Refugees
“Waiting For Godot,” the play that launched Samuel Beckett’s theatrical career and the era of the Theater of the Absurd, has a long polyglot history. Composed by an Irishman in French in 1948 and 1949, (Beckett had spent the Second World War in France as a member of the Resistance), the play first premiered in…
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