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American Yiddish scholar discovers unknown work by Sholom Aleichem
Penny Schwartz, JTAOct 14, 2021
BOSTON — Move over, Tevye the dairyman. Make room for Moshkele the thief, the rough and tumble rogue hero from the wrong side of the shtetl in a newly rediscovered...
Jewish character actor reflects on 102 years
Tom Tugend, JTAOct 07, 2021
LOS ANGELES — When actor, painter and writer Nehemia Persoff, at times dubbed “the last survivor of Hollywood’s golden age,” was a three-year old growing up in...
Isaac Asimov proudly Jewish, his way
JTAOct 01, 2021
By Stephen Silver LOS ANGELES — Last week, following a pandemic delay, Apple TV+ debuted “Foundation,” the first-ever screen adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s...
New DC Comics’ superhero is Jewish
JTAOct 01, 2021
By Julian Voloj NEW YORK — It turns out that Batman’s hometown of Gotham City has a historically Jewish neighborhood, complete with a synagogue. And for this...
The Omar I knew: What ‘The Wire’ actor taught my Jewish students
JTASep 24, 2021
By Rabbi Joe Wolfson NEW YORK — Between 2008 and 2011, one of the ways I survived in yeshiva was “The Wire,” HBO’s groundbreaking police drama. Tosafot and...
The mad mustard scientist
JTASep 24, 2021
By Rachel Román MADISON, Wisc. — The 16th-century kabbalist Moshe Cordovero and the Jewish philosopher Nachmanides both compared the universe to the size of a mustard...
Eclipsed by 9/11: The Grey Zone
JTASep 17, 2021
By Rich Brownstein NEW YORK — On Sept. 11, 2001, an unusual, morally compicated — perhaps unique — Holocaust film premiered at a festival, then quickly...
How and why the Nazis looted art
JTASep 15, 2021
By Chloe Sarbib, JTA via Alma NEW YORK — Great works of art often become so present in our everyday lives — the “Mona Lisa” on a mug, “The Starry […]
Jewish players — men and women — at the US Open
JNSSep 10, 2021
By Howard Blas When Diego Schwartzman outlasted Kevin Anderson in Sept. 1’s rain-drenched match — requiring relocation from Louis Armstrong to Arthur Ashe Stadium...
Goodstein’s latest explores Denver’s lost treasures
Chris LeppekSep 02, 2021
ROSH HASHANAH EDITION 5782 SECTION D PAGE 10 Between the lines of text and hundreds of photographs that compose Phil Goodstein’s latest book on Denver history — The...
