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Yiddish Book Center reboots exhibit

Since its opening in 1997, the Yiddish Book Center has wowed visitors with its architecture. A Jewish village resurrected on a college campus in Amherst, Mass., the...

National Library of Israel set to open

After years of meticulous planning and construction, the much-anticipated National Library of Israel is finally set to open its doors. The transformation of a triangular...

Peer tries to build black-Jewish bridges through music

Leah Peer — the founder and music director of Kol Nashim, a sister choir of the Colorado Hebrew Chorale, and director of HEA’s High Holidays choir — Peer believes...

‘Upheaval’ in Aspen

“Upheaval” is the brainchild of Denver’s Rob Schwartz, who had toured the Menachem Begin Heritage Center. In 2016 Schwartz was in a conversation with its CEO,...

‘Bella!’ aims to restore legacy

Bella Abzug, the feminist who burst into Congress battling for equal rights in 1970, was often caricatured in the media of her time. She was labeled “belligerent”...

‘Golda’ opens in Denver, Boulder

The story of the 1973 Yom Kippur war is disturbingly recreated in “Golda,” a biopic on Golda Meir’s role in the war that will open in US theaters next week, Aug....

Picking the brain of ‘Golda’ director Guy Nattiv

In "Golda," Israeli-born Nattiv, working on a script by Nicholas Martin, does a masterful job recreating the tension, anxiety, terror and tragedy that Israel endured...

Pickleball craze heats up — big time

Widely considered the fastest-growing sport in America, pickleball is a sort of condensed court tennis and pingpong hybrid that has attracted millions of new fanatics...

New bridge links Jerusalem tourist sites

Jerusalem is due to unveil Israel’s longest suspension bridge on Sunday night, August 6, connecting Mount Zion with the Hinnom Valley to the south. The bridge will...

Cricket’s long Jewish history

Crickets are not kosher, but the sport played with a bat and ball certainly is . . . and has a long Jewish history.