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Hadas Yaron as Shira in “Fill the Void.” Photo by Karin Bar, courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics

"Fill the Void,” which won Israel’s equivalent of the Academy Award last year, is a love story unlike any Hollywood fare and it is set in a Jewish community unfamiliar to most Jews.
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Maccabi Tel Aviv back on top but coach future uncertain

Champions Maccabi Tel Aviv have reasserted their dominance of Israeli soccer but media reports on Tuesday suggested they might have to continue their. . .

Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Here Today

God is here today. She is a spectacular god...

Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Memories of Auschwitz, on a return trip

How does any man survive unspeakable trauma? After 70 years of controlled silence, Otto Dov Kulka, Czech-born Holocaust historian and Professor of. . .

Wednesday, May 15, 2013
‘The Property’: Graphic in gray areas

Rutu Modan’s recently released graphic novel, “The Property,” is the latest in a long line of works using the medium to express the Jewish. . .

Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Read this article, bubala!

Back in the 1970s, when I attended the freshly integrated Fairfax High School, black and Chicano gangs would spar in the lunch yard. I used to joke. . .

Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Funny music, sad life

On an otherwise unremarkable day in 1938, a chubby but charming student at John Burroughs Junior High in Los Angeles “cracked the code of his comic. . .

Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Mezzo’s Kibbutz roots

It’s a long way from Kibbutz Dalia, where Rachel Frenkel was raised, to the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles, but the mezzo-soprano. . .

Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Press photo group stands by winning shot of Gaza funeral

World Press Photo says it has confirmed the veracity of an award-winning photograph of a Gaza funeral.

Monday, May 13, 2013
Amy Winehouse exhibit opening at London’s Jewish Museum

Most of the images we’ve seen of Amy Winehouse tend to depict only the wild and tragic parts of her life. That’s about to change.

Thursday, May 9, 2013
Hank Greenberg in extra innings

"I think Hank Greenberg was the great American hero," Washington filmmaker Aviva Kempner says. "What he did on Yom Kippur. What he faced. He was our. . .

Wednesday, May 8, 2013
The ‘light’-er side of Temple Israel of Hollywood

Temple Israel of Hollywood (TIOH) lived up to its name on April 28 when it threw a free biblically themed matinee musical, “Let There Be Light,”. . .

Wednesday, May 8, 2013
The mishegoss of mom, shmaltz-free

Anybody who has trod the boards knows that little blitz of stage fright that can flood through an actor when a member of the family is in the. . .

Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Daniel Rolnik: ‘The world’s most adorable art critic’

Daniel Rolnik bills himself as “The World’s Most Adorable Art Critic,” and if you speak to him for even a minute, it’s easy to see why.. . .

Wednesday, May 8, 2013
After erroneous denials, Stephen Hawking affirms boycott of Israel

British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking clarified Wednesday that he decided to cancel a planned visit to Israel to adhere to an academic boycott of. . .

Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Hank Greenberg's Jewishness

The big question in Detroit in the fall of 1934 had nothing to do with the troubled state of the world. Rather, the fans of the Detroit Tigers wanted. . .

Tuesday, May 7, 2013
What it really feels like to be alive today

David Shields, author of the hotly debated “Reality Hunger: A Manifesto,” has bewitched us once again with his innovative genre-bending. . .

Tuesday, May 7, 2013
U.S. official talking ‘blood diamonds’ with Israel

A top U.S. official is traveling to Israel to discuss trade with a focus on conflict diamonds.

Friday, May 3, 2013
On Jewish writing

I’m noticing a trend among my coreligionists-who-write: arguing against being “labeled” as Jewish writers — especially when they are. . .

Friday, May 3, 2013
Google edition adopts ‘Palestine’

Google has changed the title on the homepage of its Palestinian edition from "Palestinian Territories" to "Palestine."

Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Buffett completes purchase of Israeli company for $2 billion

American billionaire Warren Buffett paid $2 billion for the remaining 20 percent of the Israeli firm Iscar.

Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Sotheby’s: Steinhardt Collection ‘most valuable’ Judaica auction ever

An auction of the 500-piece Judaica collection owned by philanthropist Michael Steinhardt was the “most valuable auction of Judaica ever held,”. . .

Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Ghosts of Communism

Two weeks ago, my wife, Ann, and I completed our first trip to the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. Everywhere we went, our local guides proudly. . .

Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Blue Numbers

those numbers on your forearm you don’t try to hide them

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BBC slammed for pulling documentary on Jewish exodus from Jerusalem

An Israeli-born filmmaker is slamming the British Broadcasting Corp. for pulling his documentary on the Jewish exodus from Jerusalem in 70 A.D.







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