Culture
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...
‘Sisters In Law’: Tale of two justices
IJN StaffNov 24, 2022
It’s been six years since the Newman Center’s Elizabeth Eriksen Byron Theatre hosted a local theater run.
Why Jews thrived in Hollywood — and what they sacrificed for it
Andrew Lapin, JTANov 24, 2022
NEW YORK — On “Saturday Night Live” earlier this month, Dave Chappelle really wanted his audience to know there are a lot of Jews in Hollywood. “I’ve been to...
Magic world champ
JTANov 17, 2022
There’s a good chance that right now, Nathan Steuer is playing, or thinking about playing, Magic: The Gathering. The trading card game, which Steuer used to play with...
Shifting approach to looted art
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTANov 10, 2022
A Dutch committee charged with assessing and acting on claims about artwork stolen from Jews before and during the Holocaust has determined that a painting by Wassily...
Bar Mitzvah video was viral sensation in Brazil
JTANov 10, 2022
In Brazil, everybody knows the name Nissim Ourfali — a Bar Mitzvah boy who became one of the country’s first viral memes 10 years ago.
Weinberg collection finds home at History Colorado
Chris LeppekOct 06, 2022
Former Intermountain Jewish News photographer Bob Weinberg was honored when History Colorado added a collection of his photojournalistic and portrait photography to its...
Bollywood comes to Israel
Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman, JNSSep 29, 2022
The story of how a minimally armed unit of Indian soldiers fought and beat the Ottoman army to win Haifa on Sept. 23, 1918, will soon be made into an action-packed,...
‘Time Tunnel’ — Japan and the Jews
JNSSep 22, 2022
As Israel this year marked 70 years of diplomatic relations with Japan, Haifa’s Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art last week launched a major art exhibit titled “Time...
Crazy Eddie’s fraudulent empire
JTASep 01, 2022
Crazy Eddie was a consumer electronics empire built on hype. Entrepreneur Eddie Antar grew his chain of discount stores in the New York of the 1970s with unforgettably...
