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Rich TenorioThe Times of Israel |
New book ‘Playmakers’ by sociologist Michael Kimmel looks at how children of Jewish immigrants built the dolls, games, books and comics that...
‘Torah in the Tarot,’ named for researcher Stav Appel’s book of the same name, runs through June at the Vilna Shul, makes claim the deck was...
In ‘For the Love of Labor,’ ToI contributor Cathryn J. Prince follows the Lithuanian-born labor activist who blazed trails fighting sexism and...
In his new book ‘Matisse at War,’ Christopher C. Gorham explores the renowned artist’s troubled but prolific life under the Nazis during WWII,...
Mordecai Kaplan’s vision of a unified, reconstructed religion for American Jews was plagued by backlash but launched a new denomination. Now he’s...
In US theaters March 11, ‘The Optimist’ portrays how big-hearted toy store owner Herbert Heller came to open up about his experiences – and how...
In her biography, ‘Henrietta Szold: Hadassah and the Zionist Dream,’ author Francine Klagsbrun shows how the acclaimed activist fought against...
For Black History Month, docuseries ‘Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History’ parses what has unified and divided the communities,...
Without naming Walz, museum notes Anne Frank ‘was murdered solely because she was Jewish,’ says ‘false equivalencies to her...
In ‘Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire,’ airing on PBS in the US on January 27, filmmaker Oren Rudavsky examines the Nobel laureate through his...
After its world premiere at the Miami Jewish Film Festival on Sunday, ‘Sapiro v. Ford’ is available to stream via the festival’s...
In new book ‘Tomorrow is Yesterday,’ Jewish US diplomat Robert Malley and veteran Palestinian negotiator Hussein Agha team up to look at...
Former Forward editor Jane Eisner’s new biography tracks the Jewish artist from her native NYC to California, where she recorded hit album...
In ‘Coexistence and Other Fighting Words,’ Judea Pearl tracks post-Oct. 7 denial of Jewish self-determination, defending Israel on...
The American Jewish author and onetime rabbinical student adds to the winter holiday canon with ‘The Eight Heartbreaks of Hanukkah,’ the...
Legal commentator says president has right to revoke executive orders but nothing else
In her new book ‘Melting Point,’ Rachel Cockerell chronicles her ancestors’ involvement in an obscure movement – exclusively...
Israel-born Harvard scientist, no stranger to controversy, has asked Kim Kardashian to join his research team after the celeb got some answers about...
In US theaters Oct. 29, Jewish director Pascal Bonitzer’s latest feature centers on a $21 million painting by Egon Schiele that went missing in...
Now in theaters, ‘Truth and Treason’ tells the story of Helmuth Hubener, a German whose religious convictions inspired him to speak truth...
In new memoir, ‘Rebel Queen,’ Hungarian Jewish grandmaster Susan Polgar details attacking the forces that tried, and failed, to put her in...
In her new book ‘Messianic Zionism in the Digital Age,’ Rachel Z. Feldman documents a growing fringe movement to hasten the...
In ‘Lake Burntshore,’ far-left Jewish-Canadian author Aaron Kreuter explores the increasing Israel dissonance felt by North American...
In ‘Sitting on a Suitcase: Psychoanalytic Stories,’ diverse clinicians discuss treating patients while juggling their own generational...
In US theaters today, ‘Shoshana’ portrays true romance between a Haganah member and the British officer tasked with arresting rebels like...
New documentary airing June 27 in the US on PBS explores how the Jewish writer and activist brought lessons from WWII Germany to McCarthy-era America...
This Shavuot, read Kelsey Osgood’s ‘Godstruck,’ a reflection on her own unexpected Orthodox conversion to Judaism as well as the conversions of...