On Thursday, January 19, 2017, the Sundance Institute will convene the 2017 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, with additional screenings in Salt Lake...
The 26th annual New York Jewish Film Festival opened last week and is filled with stories of the diversity in the Israeli and diaspora Jewish...
What is it about the Hebrew month of Kislev? So many Jewish oriented cookbooks get purchased. Here are some of my favorites of the season....
The nominations for the 59th Annual Grammy Awards were announced this morning, and guess what… Fiddler on the Roof is up for an award. The...
I remember back to 1857, when the British rulers of India issued gunpowder cartridges to its Hindu and Muslim soldiers that contained animal tallow as...
As American citizens go to the polls across the United States and its territories and cast their votes, there have been reports of long waits,...
The late author Harry Kemelman and his character, Rabbi David Small, would be proud to know that on Monday The Justice(s) Took Off. “The First...
It all started at Yale University with a study on whether the political affiliation of your physician affected treatment. Professors Eitan D. Hersh and Matthew...
Is best selling author Elana Ferrante actually Anita Raja, a Jewish Italian translator at Edizioni E/O in Italy? So said the gossip site DagoSpia months...
Just in time for the Jewish High Holy Days, New York City’s >Metropolitan Museum of Art wil open a show titled “JERUSALEM: 1000 – 1400...
This week marks 25 years since the riots between Hasidic (Lubavitch) Jews and black residents in Crown Heights in Brooklyn – an event that former...
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer Publication Date; August 16, 2016 Publisher: Gallery Books / Simon & Schuster We dropped by...
The campers at Habonim Dror’s Camp Morasha in the woods of Northeast Maryland are a creative bunch. Sleeping halfway between Lancaster and Baltimore, they have...
Wikileaks Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange appears to have suggested in an interview on Dutch TV’s Nieuwsuur that Seth Rich, a staff member of the DNC, was...
The 2016 Olympics have arrived. So many stories on security, unfinished facilities, and Zika fears. Oh, the Greek Gods are so fickle. But let’s focus...
As the world downloads and plays Pokémon Go, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has asked the maker of the online game to Pokémon STOP, and...
The UK Guardian starts off the morning with a story on Jewish households in the United Kingdom, titled, One in four married or cohabiting UK...
Guess what? I never read all of “Night” or “Dawn.” It is about time I did. NIGHT by Elie Wiesel 2006 paperback Edition Hill and...
It happened less than a week after the terror attack in Tel Aviv. The Orlando attack began at 2 AM, as many Jews participated in...
Once every 19 years – or so I heard – a Jewish Film Fest naturally occurs in Manhattan. It is a Naturally Occurring JFF, not...