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Rich Tenorio

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Jewish state or state of the Jews? How Israel’s independence sparked an identity conflict

Jewish state or state of the Jews? How Israel’s independence sparked an identity conflict

In his book ‘To Be a Jewish State,’ Oxford professor Yaacov Yadgar raises provocative questions in the context of the old-new arguments about...

01.05.2025 10

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Rich Tenorio

Syrian foreign minister raises new flag at UN, calls for Israeli withdrawal

Syrian foreign minister raises new flag at UN, calls for Israeli withdrawal

In speech to Security Council, Asaad al-Shaibani urges world body to pressure Israel to leave buffer zone on border, end strikes; vows Syria does not...

26.04.2025 30

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How a 19th-century British Jew became a Zulu chieftain and slaveholding warlord

How a 19th-century British Jew became a Zulu chieftain and slaveholding warlord

In new book ‘The Jew Who Would Be King,’ historian Adam Rovner tells the story of Nathaniel Isaacs, who survived a shipwreck and went on to a life...

26.04.2025 30

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Geolocated app connects Auschwitz visitors with survivors’ testimonies on horrors in camp

Geolocated app connects Auschwitz visitors with survivors’ testimonies on horrors in camp

Titled The Last Ones, the application utilizes short interviews with Holocaust survivors to illuminate Nazi murders and torments — at camps and...

26.04.2025 30

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New film shows how escapees from 1st Nazi death camp revealed Final Solution to the world

New film shows how escapees from 1st Nazi death camp revealed Final Solution to the world

Screening in NY to mark Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, director Lior Geller’s ‘The World Will Tremble’ tells true story of daring...

24.04.2025 10

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AP controversially kept photojournalists in Nazi Germany. But is that the whole picture?

AP controversially kept photojournalists in Nazi Germany. But is that the whole picture?

The self-styled impartial media outlet investigated itself for its actions while operating within Hitler’s dictatorship during WWII. The probe...

24.04.2025 30

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How Jewish patriots in the US Revolutionary War helped shape the First Amendment

In new book ‘A Promised Land,’ history professor Adam Jortner looks at the role of Jews – then just 0.1% of the population –...

18.04.2025 20

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Slave-owning Jewish Confederate woman documents wartime Passover in newly published diary

Seen in their entirety for the first time, Emma Mordecai’s US Civil War writings paint a seemingly contradictory picture of an anti-emancipation...

11.04.2025 20

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Jewish Camp David broker chronicles 50 years of world-changing negotiations

In ‘The Art of Diplomacy,’ longtime US negotiator Stuart Eizenstat draws on interviews with 130 global players to highlight the most important...

05.04.2025 20

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Just in time for Passover, Jesus biopic ‘The Chosen’ premieres Season 5 in US cinemas

Launching March 28, hit show doesn’t downplay Christ’s Jewish roots but takes advice from a Messianic rabbi. Season Five: Last Supper to see a...

28.03.2025 50

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Why US art houses screen Oscar-winning Palestinian doc that mainstream theaters shun

Despite winning an Academy Award, ‘No Other Land’ is seldom seen in commercial cinemas. In many small theaters, showings are regularly full,...

26.03.2025 10

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Rich Tenorio

Looking to sway Spanish-speaking world, new series interviews Latin Israelis about Oct. 7

Following its premiere last month, ‘Testigos del Terror,’ or ‘Witnesses of Terror,’ seeks to show non-Jewish Hispanic viewers that the tragedy...

24.03.2025 40

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A gunslinging rabbi takes on an antisemitic whodunit in this thrilling Jewish Western

Screening March 16 at the Boca International Jewish Film Festival, ‘Guns & Moses’ targets all-too-real themes for US Jews while keeping...

16.03.2025 30

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Unrepentant Nazi art thief who stole Jews’ art from ‘still warm walls’ focus of new film

Airing Feb. 19 on PBS, ‘Plunderer’ chronicles the life of Bruno Lohse, who amassed a collection worth millions while looting the homes of...

19.02.2025 10

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Rich Tenorio

Harvard antisemitism task force co-chair talks about post-Oct. 7 ‘petrified anger’

Prof. Derek Penslar recently spoke at the Divinity School about his book ‘Zionism: An Emotional State,’ and the passions motivating Zionists and...

15.01.2025 40

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Some Jewish film festivals tiptoe around Oct. 7. A Miami festival is leaning into it

Running from Jan. 9-23, the Miami Jewish Film Festival will feature 13 films dealing with the Hamas atrocities to help combat denial of the tragedy...

09.01.2025 40

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At Harvard, US academics compare notes on a year of post-Oct. 7 campus antisemitism

Jewish Studies faculty from around the United States convene in Cambridge this week to dissect an ongoing period of unprecedented hostility

12.12.2024 20

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Rich Tenorio

A Middle East expert envisioned two paths for Israel. Then October 7 happened

French-Israeli geopolitical scholar Michael Horowitz had nearly finished his book, ‘Hope and Despair,’ when Hamas massacred 1,200 people in...

12.10.2024 10

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Rich Tenorio

Truth is stranger than fiction in new miniseries based on the life of Franz Kafka

In ‘Kafka,’ now streaming on ChaiFlicks, the German Jewish author’s escapades and complex inner struggles are creatively portrayed through the...

26.07.2024 10

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Rich Tenorio