PBS sheds light on the Holocaust with timely specials
Tom Tugend, JTAApr 08, 2010
LOS ANGELES The Public Broadcasting Service will offer US television viewers a concentrated history lesson during Holocaust Remembrance Week, with seven films and...
Despite predictions of their demise, Holocaust films keep coming
Tom Tugend, JTASep 17, 2009
LOS ANGELES At least once a year over the last quarter century, a respected critic will prove conclusively that films about the Holocaust and the Nazi era have...
‘Iran is great for Jews’
Tom Tugend, JTAMar 19, 2009
LOS ANGELES There was no clean knockout when New York Times columnist Roger Cohen faced off against some 400 Iranian Jews and Bahais in Los Angeles, but spectators...
The year Israel was finally going to win Academy Award
Tom Tugend, JTAFeb 26, 2009
LOS ANGELES This was the year Israel was finally going to win an Oscar for best foreign language film after being nominated seven previous times. After all, Ari...
Bridging the Muslim-Jewish divide: 50 synagogues, 50 mosques, twin
Tom Tugend, JTANov 20, 2008
LOS ANGELES There was nothing unusual about some 20 devout Muslims from the King Fahad Mosque bowing and prostrating themselves as they recited the Isha, or night...
