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Documentary ‘Who Will Write Our History?’ Tells Stunning, Little-Known Holocaust Story

January 30, 2020
By Simi Horwitz
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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 her home in Los Angeles. Producer Nancy Spielberg (yes, Steven’s sister), with whom Grossman collaborated on the Holocaust documentary Who Will Write Our History, is participating in the conversation from her New York home. Their film, which has already been screened at various festivals worldwide, will make its television debut on the Discovery Channel on January 26 at 3 p.m. The telecast is part of Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorations. It’s also the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

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‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ and the Lasting Appeal of Larry David

February 17, 2020
By Andrew Lapin
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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 and wood stains.

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Beshert | Bestie In My Building

February 28, 2020
By Kat Akcakanat
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Fast forward six months later. I now lovingly call my neighbor my friend. She is exactly what I was searching for in my little neighborhood. We’ve named each other Lucy and Ethel. We laugh, we talk, we share. We drink coffee and write. We watch The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Best of all, she lives right below me. And has all along.

Jewish World, Latest

The Most Important Jewish Election Nobody’s Heard Of

January 27, 2020
By Nathan Guttman
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This historic body, founded by Theodor Herzl in 1897, is the oldest representative Jewish institution and the only one in which all Jewish diaspora is represented and democratically elected. The elections will go on for almost two months, and in October 2020, the new Congress will convene in Jerusalem.

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Beshert | Bonded by the Bard

February 28, 2020
By Michelle Cameron
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“Was that your friend Bill Shakespeare?” my youngest son, Alex, then six, asks after my husband, Steve, hangs up the phone.

If that seems like a crazy question from a child, it was par for the course in my household, because it was words that wooed me, words that won me, and words that keep us – the entire family – in thrall.

From the very beginning, in fact.

Jewish World, Latest

What Should the Anti-Semitism Czar Do?

January 20, 2020
By Nathan Guttman
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For two years, America did not have a point person dealing with global anti-Semitism, and much has changed in that time: In Eastern Europe, attempts to blur historical facts regarding the Holocaust have increased, especially in Poland, while Hungary experienced a government-backed anti-Semitic smear campaign against George Soros. Anti-Semitic incidents in Western Europe remain on the rise, and in the UK, Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party was widely denounced for failing to deal with anti-Semitism in its leadership and ranks. But the biggest shift in anti-Semitic trends did not happen in distant countries overseas. It occurred in the U.S., where white nationalist anti-Semitism reared its head, leading murderous attacks on synagogues, hateful Nazi marches and countless incidents of anti-Semitic vandalism. In addition, attacks on Jews in the New York area, many of them by African Americans, also saw an alarming surge.

Chai Brow, Jewish Culture and Traditions - Moment Magazine, Latest

Israeli Documentary ‘Afterward’ Is a Guiding Light in a World of Trauma

January 20, 2020
By Andrew Lapin
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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.

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Beshert | Really Glad We Didn’t Skip That Party

February 28, 2020
By Jim Ostroff
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That we met on February 22, my Grandma Clara’s birthday, my parents’ wedding day and my Bar Mitzvah day on my mom’s and dad’s 22nd anniversary, must be pure coincidence, right? We chose our wedding day, June 10th, randomly; it turned out to be my grandparents’ wedding day nearly 70 years earlier. Another coincidence… unless one accepts that beshert operates in strange and mysterious ways.

Jewish World, Latest

Are We All Hasidim?

January 9, 2020
By George E. Johnson
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In a world in which any Jew is a potential target of anti-Semitism, it is the most visible Jews who are most threatened. Jews with black hats, with tight curls hanging down below their ears and black coats and women wearing modest head coverings, they are the most vulnerable. Jews in synagogues. In Brooklyn, as in Jersey City and Monsey, violence against individuals in their Hasidic communities is almost an everyday event. If someone wants to do harm to a Jew, Hasidic Jews and their communities are and have become easy targets.

Jewish World, Latest

Qassem Soleimani and the 2020 Elections

January 10, 2020
By Nathan Guttman
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An attack that lasted less than a minute on Thursday night marked a new phase in America’s standing in the Middle East. What was until that moment a tense standoff between the Trump administration and the Ayatollahs in Tehran turned into a rapidly escalating conflict, which could lead to anything from a cycle of attacks and counter-attacks to an all-out war.

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Anti-Semitism Monitor December Findings

January 10, 2020
By Ira N. Forman
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If you want to understand the nature of resurgent anti-Semitism in the United States, as well as to confront the obstacles to combating it, you could hardly find a more useful guide then by examining the events of the last month of 2019.

Chai Brow, Jewish Culture and Traditions - Moment Magazine, Latest

Three Seasons In, Is ‘Mrs. Maisel’ Still Marvelous?

January 6, 2020
By Andrew Lapin
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Is The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel a very good Jewish show, or just a very Jewish show?

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