On this episode of Up Close, we hear directly from a woman “chained” in her marriage and whose husband is now marrying someone else. Lonna Kin has been trying for ten years to get a...
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Viewing King David as a Real Historical Figure
It’s The Jewish Channel’s brand-new show, Up Close. News anchor Steven I. Weiss goes in-depth on the issues with interviews and small panels. On this first episode, we explore historical...
Did Anti-Jewish Hate Crimes Really Drop Last Year, Or is Something Else Going On?
Latest hate crime stats show Jews as most victimized; details of former Israeli Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger’s alleged crimes revealed; Lihi Lapid, Israeli journalist and wife of Israel’s...
About Those Iran Nuclear Negotiaions… And All the Treats of Thanksgivukkah
Thanksgivukkah treats to light, wear and eat (product info here); Israel provides aid to the Philippines; New Jersey’s second-largest city has a 36-year-old mayor and he’s Jewish; former...
Dr. Ruth Answers The Jewish Channel Viewers on Sex
The U.S. agenda for Israeli-Palestinian peace; Comic artist Art Spiegelman (Maus) gets a retrospective at The Jewish Museum; Dr. Ruth Westheimer vistis TJC’s “The Salon”; the...
Turning Rambam & Solomon Schechter Into Fictional Characters
Obama’s latest directive on Iran; Paula Abdul’s bat mitzvah in Israel; a new film in Yiddish, “The Pin,” opens in NY and LA; the doors of the Cairo Geniza come to NY;...
The Fight for the Life of Young Idan Zablocki; Interview With NYC Republican Mayoral Candidate Joe Lhota
A young couple, Amanda and Akiva Zablocki, fight for the life of their child, Idan, and you can help at YouCaring.com; NYC Republican Mayoral candidate Joe Lhota’s sits down for an interview...
Jewish Charity Scandal
Scandal rocks one of the Jewish world’s biggest charities as the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty’s CEO William Rapfogel leaves the organization over financial malpractices, NYC...