Jon Stewart on filming in — and talking about — the Middle East
Stewart’s directorial film debut, Rosewater, is based on the memoir of an Iranian journalist who was arrested after appearing on ...
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Local authors to discuss 'Jewish Luck'
Sisters Meryll Levine Page and Leslie Levine Adler will discuss the theme of connections in their book, Jewish Luck: A ...
ISIS video purports to show murder of Steven Sotloff
(JTA) — The Islamist ISIS organization has released a video that apparently shows the beheading of the American journalist Steven ...
Rescuing art from the Third Reich
Robert Edsel, author of The Monuments Men, went from the oil business to art history By ERIN ELLIOTT BRYAN / ...
A wife’s captivating tribute
Timeless: Love, Morgenthau and Me, by Lucinda Franks; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 390 pages, $28 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER If ...
Yiddish tango links time, space and musical styles
Tango music was born in late 19th-century Argentina in communities of newly arrived European immigrants, many of them Jews By ...
Director’s first film is Mideast thriller
If you haven’t had your fill of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the nightly network news and other news shows spinning ...
Alleging bias, Israel keeping distance from U.N. probe
Conclusions of the latest investigation will not be legally binding on Israel, but could further ratchet up international criticism By ...
Barrage of rockets strikes Israel again
(JTA) — Hamas claimed responsibility for a barrage of rockets fired on southern and central Israel, including Tel Aviv. More ...
After rabbi’s murder, Miami Jews on edge
Police say no evidence has emerged that anti-Semitism was a motive in the crime, but the murder has raised fears ...
