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Rich Tenorio

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

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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Rich Tenorio

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

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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Rich Tenorio

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

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

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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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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Rich Tenorio

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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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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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