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1913: Jews, Christians, Muslims coexisted

A one-hour PBS special airing June 30 traces the relationship between Jews and Arabs in Palestine in the late Ottoman Empire. “1913: Seeds of Conflict,” starts out one...

Welcome to Kutsher’s

By Shana Goldberg & Andrea Jacobs documentary 10 years in the making, “Welcome to Kutsher’s” tells the story of a once-booming Borscht Belt hotel that had...

Helen Mirren honored for role in ‘Woman in Gold’

NEW YORK — Academy Award-winning actress Helen Mirren accepted an award for helping to educate the public about the issues surrounding Nazi-looted art. On June 19, the...

Book review: ‘Holocaust in Crete’

does one mourn a double tragedy, an irony-laden incident from more than seven decades ago in which  a group of people bound for almost certain death — Jews aboard a...

Tampa Bay Lightning’s Jewish owner speaks

BALTIMORE — Jeffrey Vinik, the owner of the National Hockey League’s Tampa Bay Lightning, is experiencing a first: his team playing in the Stanley Cup Finals, which...

Are the NBA finals lose-lose for Blatt?

NEW YORK — After the last game of an impressive series sweep of the Atlanta Hawks, Cleveland Cavaliers coach David Blatt talked with broadcaster Ernie Johnson in front...

After decades of IOC silence, slain Israeli athletes get recognition

“WE HAVE given the best years of our lives to remember — to remember the tragedy of what happened . . . Now we are starting to see some light […]

The Holocaust film that is upending the genre

NEW YORK — Given the long and storied history of the Holocaust film genre, it’s unusual for a new movie on the subject to be lauded as innovative. But the […]

Bronco start date Rosh Hashanah

NEW YORK — On Rosh Hashanah, according to the liturgy, our fate is written in the Book of Life. But Jewish football fans may be missing something else: the NFL...

Sabbath-observing baseball exec says record contract makes sense for Marlins

MIAMI — For Joel Mael, the Shabbat-observing vice chairman of the Miami Marlins, the team’s free spending in the offseason was wise from a financial perspective....