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‘Turn Every Page’ explores the relationship between literary colleagues
JTAJan 26, 2023
It is the relationship between editor and writer that his daughter Lizzie Gottlieb, a documentary filmmaker, explores in her latest film, “Turn Every Page: The...
A verdant Baha’i pantheon in Israel
JNSJan 19, 2023
A Baha’i shrine that will house the remains of one of the three central founders of the faith is under construction in the port city of Acre in what will be the third...
International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, class of ‘23
Shana GoldbergJan 12, 2023
Broadcaster Chris Berman and a German Jew who once said hockey “saved me and my family from the Holocaust” are among the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame’s...
Irish-Jewish genealogical archives now in Israel’s National Library
JTADec 29, 2022
Israel’s National Library accepted 22 volumes of archives from the Irish Jewish Family History Database, which tracks over three centuries of Jewish life in Ireland.
Idina Menzel: From Bat Mitzvah circuit to Broadway
JTADec 22, 2022
By Stephen Silver NEW YORK — Before appearing in Broadway shows such as “Rent” and “Wicked” and voicing Queen Elsa in “Frozen,” Idina Menzel got her start...
Happy Chanukah! IJN Doris Sky Chanukah Coloring Contest Winners 2022
IJN StaffDec 15, 2022
Winners of the 2022 Intermountain Jewish News Doris Sky Chanukah Coloring Contest are announced.
Hispanic MLBers visit Israel to promote Christian-Jewish relations
Hillel Kuttler, JTADec 08, 2022
MLB players Nelson Cruz, Cesar Hernandez and Jeimer Candelario were brought to Israel for a week by the Philos Project, a US-based nonprofit organization that promotes...
Birthright seeks next Jewish comedy star
JNSDec 08, 2022
Birthright participants are more likely to build Jewish families. But could Birthright produce the next Jewish comedy star?
Qatar tries to accommodate Jewish World Cup guests
JNSDec 01, 2022
While Qatar can hardly be considered a friend of Israel, harboring as it does Hamas terrorists, when it comes to Jews visiting the country for the FIFA World Cup, Qatar...
Aboard the Titanic, Ida Strauss chose to perish with her husband
JNSDec 01, 2022
“Where you go, I go,” Ida Straus told her husband, Isidor, aboard the RMS Titanic in April, 1912. With lifeboats available for women and children first, men had to...
