'Rosenwald' celebrates forgotten benefactor
Julius Rosenwald’s philanthropy supported African American schools and artists By MICHAEL FOX The recent history between Jews and African Americans, ...
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'Supermensch': Rock manager and racounteur
Lively and affectionate Supermensch, which profiles longtime rock ’n roll manager Shep Gordon, describes how a nice guy finished first ...
Standup comic’s act gets real in ‘Obvious Child’
Film will likely provoke laughs as well as conversations about a woman’s right to choose and Jewish heritage By MICHAEL ...
'Ida': An exploration of faith and identity
A sheltered Polish orphan about to become a nun learns that she has an aunt, and that she’s from a ...
'A Place at the Table': The reality of hunger in America
In a scene from the documentary "A Place at the Table," Leslie Nichols, a 5th grade teacher in Collbran, Colo., ...
Glossy Swedish film explores Jewish identity
The film is not a Jewish parable so much as a story of discovering and accepting one’s place in the ...
Review: 'A Serious Man' unspools funny and foreboding bubbe meises
Amy Landecker stars as Mrs. Samsky, shown here with Michael Stuhlbarg, who plays protagonist Larry Gopnik, in writer/directors Joel and ...
'Lips' Kudlow and Robb Reiner, founders of heavy metal group Anvil, will play brief set Friday after screening of documentary film at Uptown Theatre
The band Anvil was the inspiration for many musicians who went on to become demi-gods of heavy metal music. Steve (Lips) ...
No war no more
As a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces, Ari Folman arrived at the Beirut airport during Israel’s 1982 Lebanon War. ...
