Documentary filmmaker Roberta Grossman is obsessed with the Holocaust, always has been. Its ever-present evil—the ultimate “rift in humanity,” she says—just won’t let go. “It’s not that I can’t pull away from it, but rather why others can.” So she asserts on the phone from...
Suddenly there he was, shuffling to the podium: that familiar bald dome, those telltale glasses, the grumpy slouch we’d come to know and love, now stuffed inside a baggy suit that seemed to somehow fit perfectly, and now yelling about American politics instead of golf...
The larger-than-life figure of Wonder Woman strode back into popular culture in 2017 in the person of Gal Gadot, her red, white and blue costume...
There is another version of the story in which we survive nothing by accident....
The remarkable new documentary Afterward is a dissection of nothing less than the last century’s collective trauma of the Jewish people, and a sincere attempt to find its echo in the trauma of Israel’s sworn enemies....
Dr. Josef Mengele, physician, anthropologist, son of a prosperous Bavarian family, Nazi Party member...
In many ways, Edith Halpert embodied the spirit of American pragmatism, which is how she explained herself: “I either had to stagnate, which was a thing I dreaded, or go ahead, and the only way to go ahead was to do something beyond what I...
Is The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel a very good Jewish show, or just a very Jewish show?...
Some more great cinematic tales of Jews making sense of their relationship to the world—and the world, in turn, making sense of its relationship to Jews....
Looking back at his almost 40-year career as a multi-award winning musical theater composer-lyricist (Nine, Titanic, Grand Hotel, Death Takes a Holiday), Maury Yeston doesn’t want to single out his favorite production, but rather celebrate achieving his elusive goal: “living a life devoted to and...