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Gadot’s Cleopatra isn’t the first to stir controversy
Gabe Friedman, JTAOct 15, 2020
NEW YORK — After Israeli actress Gal Gadot announced last weekend that she would play the legendary Egyptian queen in a blockbuster movie, it didn’t take long for...
Trove of paintings hidden for 78 years
JTAOct 08, 2020
By Toby Axelrod PRAGUE — Plans are under way to find a home for a huge trove of works by a nearly forgotten Jewish artist that was uncovered 78 years after her death...
MLB’s official historian was born in a DP camp
JTASep 24, 2020
By Stephen Silver NEW YORK — From Hank Greenberg to Sandy Koufax to Alex Bregman, Jews and baseball go way back to the 19th century. It’s not just players and fans...
Roma angle on Holocaust story
Gabe Friedman, JTASep 24, 2020
LOS ANGELES — When Israeli director Yuval Adler saw the script for “The Secrets We Keep,” a thriller about a woman who kidnaps a man she believes was her Nazi...
Busing in Denver was neither easy nor calm
Chris LeppekSep 17, 2020
ROSH HASHANAH EDITION 5781 SECTION D PAGE 12 One is tempted at first glance to think that Phil Goodstein might have chosen to use a touch of hyperbole in titling his...
Ghanain actor potrays Jewish astronaut
Gabe Friedman, JTASep 17, 2020
ROSH HASHANAH EDITION 5781 SECTION D PAGE 10 NEW YORK — Ato Essandoh isn’t Jewish, or British, or an astronaut — but he plays an African-British-Jewish astronaut...
Israeli pitcher earns a victory in MLB debut
JTASep 10, 2020
Dean Kremer, the first Israeli baseball player drafted into the Major Leagues, was called up to the Baltimore Orioles and earned a victory in his debut — all in less...
Oy vey! Yiddish goes psychedelic
JTASep 03, 2020
By Joe Bauer WEIMAR, Germany — What if the Yiddish-speaking poets and songwriters had electric guitars and amps in the shtetl? That’s the question Sasha Lurje and...
Court rules: museum may keep looted painting
Marcy Oster, JTAAug 27, 2020
A Spanish museum, not the heirs of a Jewish woman fleeing the Holocaust, is the rightful owner of a Pissarro painting now valued at $40 million, a US appeals court has...
Israelis are vacationing in their own backyard
Uriel Heilman, JTAAug 27, 2020
JERUSALEM — There’s nothing Israelis like to do better in August than leave the country. The summertime heat is oppressive, state-subsidized Israeli summer camps...
