A farce or a protest erupted at New York University this week, when about 7 dozen of NYU’s more than 20,000 students occupied the third floor of a building and made demands of the university...
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New London Play Attacks Israeli Jews, But the Admission is Free.
A 10 minute play is being performed at the Royal Court theatre in London. And it might be heading to an off Broadway venue in NYC. “Seven Jewish Children,” by Caryl Churchill, is a very short play...
My Valentine’s Date With a Jewish Book
How did you spend your St. Valentine’s Day? Reading Yitro? On a date? Hanging with “quirky alone?” How about a torrid love affair with a Jewish Book? I visited Sotheby’s Manhattan...
Israeli and Palestinian Films Meet at Sundance, Part 2 of 2
Other Israel connected filmmakers at Sundance included: “Trece Anos” a seven minute Sundance short by Topaz Adizes was shot entirely in Cuba. The film is about a young man who returns home to his...
The Shvat Tuba: Thoughts
At The Grammy Awards telecast in the USA on SUnday night, the word is that Katy (Hudson) Perry, of “I Kissed a Girl, and I liked It…” fame, will honor Tu b’Shvat, the Jewish...
Israeli and Palestinian Films Meet at Sundance 2009, Part 1 of 2
The Middle Eastern population more than quadrupled in Park City, Utah, last month during the Sundance Film Festival 2009, as filmmakers and graduates of the Sundance Labs, as well as its Near Eastern...
Israelis Make Manhattan Smell…
On nearly a dozen recorded days since 2005, Manhattan and its Upper West Side has smelled like maple syrup or French toast. It has been a mystery. Was it bio terrorism? Was it a refinery in New...
“All Things Considered” Considered Brooklyn Tonight
National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” broadcast a story today (2/2/09) on two men in their 20’s who grew up in Williamsburg’s Hasidic communities and left...