Culture
Yael: fictional Israeli undercover agent at UN
Ruth Ellen Gruber, JTAJun 20, 2013
BUDAPEST Theres a new Jewish heroine on the block, a tough but tender Israeli who does undercover work for the UN and stars in a new series of thrillers […]
‘Hannah Arendt’ captures intensity of intellectual combat
Tom Tugend, JTAJun 17, 2013
LOS ANGELES Movie mavens may have to come up with a new genre to classify Hannah Arendt, the biopic of the German-Jewish philosopher. New York Times critic A.O....
Chabad man pushing fashion boundaries
Gil Shefler, JTAMay 09, 2013
NEW YORK Yosel Tiefenbrun looked in the mirror and he liked what he saw. The 23-year-old Chabad rabbi and apprentice at Maurice Sedwell, a bespoke tailors shop on...
Shalom y’all: The day that Corky’s went kosher
Ron Kampeas, JTAMay 02, 2013
MEMPHIS The thick scent of a peppery rub wafted through the Margolin Hebrew Academy and Corky the Pig embroidered his chefs hat with a K and became a cow.
Warsaw’s Jewish history museum is dedicated
Ruth Ellen Gruber, JTAApr 18, 2013
WARSAW Krzysztof Sliwinski, a longtime Catholic activist in Jewish-Polish relations, gazed wide-eyed at the swooping interior of this citys Museum of the History of...
Kids’ books: It’s rhyme time for matzah and the seder
Penny Schwartz, JTAMar 28, 2013
PASSOVER EDITIONSECTION C PAGE 13 BOSTON Years ago, Nancy Steiner set out to make her family seder a bit more entertaining for her own young kids. She wrote a...
Fifth Question: Is quinoa kosher for Passover, or not?
Chavie Lieber, JTAMar 21, 2013
PASSOVER EDITION SECTION C PAGE 3 NEW YORK — On any given day, a wind might blow through the farmlands of South America, pick up an errant grain of barley and...
For Israeli, healthy Mediterranean diet is no secret
Ben Sales, JTAMar 14, 2013
TEL AVIV Puffing on a cigarette, Amnon Tubi says he always knew what scientists only recently have proven about staying healthy. I knew that Mediterranean food is...
Film about Israeli troops in Gaza wins at Berlin Festival
JTAFeb 21, 2013
BERLIN A feature film about Israeli troops in Gaza won a top independent jury prize at the 63rd annual Berlin International Film Festival. Rock the Casbah, by...
Meet Brian Bendis, the man who killed Spiderman
JTAFeb 14, 2013
By Michael Orbach, JTA NEW YORK — Spiderman heroically dispatched countless foes since he arrived on the scene in 1962. Nearly a half-century later, Brian Michael...
