Curt Schleier, JTA
Meet Shulem Lemmer, the chasid who just signed with Decca
Curt Schleier, JTAApr 30, 2020
NEW YORK — Shulem Lemmer’s singing career took a wildly positive turn over the past year. He went on a major stadium and arena tour, playing to packed houses at...
Comic Ben Schwartz voices a hedgehog
Curt Schleier, JTAMar 05, 2020
LOS ANGELES — Ben Schwartz fits in well in the world of neurotic Jewish comedians. He was so anxious to get the word out about his new movie, “Standing Up,
Clive Owen plays a violin virtuosos in ‘Song of Names’
Curt Schleier, JTADec 26, 2019
NEW YORK — “The Song of Names” is a heartwarming film about a Jewish violin virtuoso who renounces his faith in the aftermath of the Holocaust, only to rediscover...
Sorkin revives ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’
Curt Schleier, JTAMar 28, 2019
NEW YORK — Aaron Sorkin gets that the question is a joke and, no, he responds, he didn’t tackle a stage version of “To Kill A Mockingbird” because “Gone With...
Felicity Jones on playing Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Curt Schleier, JTADec 27, 2018
LOS ANGELES — The young attorney seems unsure of herself. As a law professor, she is unaccustomed to appearing in court, so she hesitates at first, unable to begin her...
Elaine May returns to Broadway in Lonergan production
Curt Schleier, JTANov 21, 2018
NEW YORK — On the phone earlier this month, just before his play “The Waverly Gallery” opened on Broadway, Kenneth Lonergan sounded harried. There had been some...
‘Fauda’ depicts terrorists as ‘real human beings’
Curt Schleier, JTAOct 11, 2018
NEW YORK — Moshe Zonder noticed it quickly: “My students are completely serious. They are writing. They are doing the assignments. All of them. It’s great teaching...
’93Queen’ explores female Orthodox EMT group
Curt Schleier, JTAJul 19, 2018
NEW YORK — Like many heavily Orthodox sections of Brooklyn, Borough Park has been served for decades by an all-male volunteer ambulance corps called Hatzalah. The...
Berg went from catcher to spy
Curt Schleier, JTAJun 28, 2018
NEW YORK — It’s rare enough for a Jewish baseball player to make it to the major leagues. A New York Jew named Moe Berg took it even a step […]
‘GI Jews’ in WW II: the anti-Semitism they faced
Curt Schleier, JTAApr 12, 2018
NEW YORK — “GI Jews: Jewish Americans in WW II” begins as many Holocaust documentaries do, with a history of the rise of Hitler and Nazism in Germany mixed with...